Social affairs

Graduate students interested in an academic career after graduation day have often been told they need to be open to...

Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all...

In its first 100 days, the Trump administration terminated more than US$2 billion in federal grants, according to a public...

Congolese thinker, philosopher and linguist Valentin-Yves Mudimbe died on April 21, 2025 at the age of 83. He was in...

Are university students unhappy? We won’t generalize, but many are, and this was something Bruce Hood noted. Being an experimental...

Pope Francis devoted his Message for World Day of Migrants and Refugees in 2023 to the “right” or “freedom” to...

Christopher Jencks, known for his novel and inventive opinions on hot topic issues like income inequality, homelessness, and racial gaps...

In this month’s issue of The Evidence newsletter, Josephine Lethbridge discusses the rise of teen misogyny, highlighting the impact of...

Economist Rosanna Smart, a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, will be the featured speaker at...

A new study on the connections between editors-in-chief in the social sciences reveals significant geographical and gender imbalances in editorial...