Historian Tanalís Padilla’s new book about activist rural schools in Mexico highlights long-running tensions in the nation’s politics.
The findings suggest voting by incarcerated people is unlikely to affect electoral outcomes, in contrast to some assumptions.
MIT community members made headlines around the world for their innovative approaches to addressing problems local and global.
The year’s popular research stories include a promising new approach to cancer immunotherapy, the confirmation of a 50-year-old theorem, and a major fusion breakthrough.
MIT field experiment from India finds a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.
MIT economist’s new research shows U.S. locales hammered by open trade with China have not rebounded, even a decade or more later.
Professor Fotini Christia is part of a team examining the challenges of implementing community policing across a range of countries.
PhD student's research centers on ethics, including bioethics, and the philosophy of action.
In spreading politics, videos may not be much more persuasive than their text-based counterparts.
An experiment in Indonesia shows how much subsidies and in-person assistance spur people to get insurance — and how many people stop trying.
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