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Would-be clients with white-sounding names got 50% more lawyer responses in California, report says

June 6, 2019

ABA Journal | Coverage of forthcoming article by Stone PhD Scholar Brian Libgober, PhD '18, "Getting a Lawyer While Black: A Field Experiment." Brian earned his AM in Statistics and PhD in Government from Harvard University, and his JD from the University of Michigan. He is now a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in political science at Yale University, 2018-2020.

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Writing Crime into Race

July 2, 2018

Harvard Magazine | Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad studies one of the most powerful ideas in the American imagination. A profile of Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.



Year One: Resistance Research

November 9, 2017

The New York Review of Books—NYR Daily | In this essay by Judith Shulevitz, political scientist Theda Skocpol talks about what she's been finding in her latest research with colleagues Katherine Swartz  (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) and Mary Waters (Harvard Sociology). The three have teamed up to study counties that went for Trump in four states that went for Trump: Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin.

"Skocpol says she was startled to find so many flourishing anti-Trump groups in these conservative strongholds. She thinks the resistance is at least as extensive as the Tea Party at its height (a quarter of a million to three hundred thousand active members, according to her estimates). It is certainly as energized. Skocpol hasn’t seen a liberal movement like it in decades, she says."



Yes, marches can make a difference. It depends on these three factors.

January 27, 2017

Washington Post | By Shom Mazumder, Ph.D. candidate in Government. It turns out that social science has a lot to say about which protests are likely to be effective. Here's what Mazumder's research found. Read more about his work at his website:
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Yes, signing those petitions makes a difference — even if they don’t change Trump’s mind

February 3, 2017

Washington Post | By Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of the Social Sciences at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Learn more about his research project on The Petition and Republican Government:
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Yes, the Rich Have Become Poorer Since the Recession Started

February 24, 2015

Economics 21| By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09)



You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?

July 16, 2015

The New York Times Magazine | Bruce Western



You're not going to get accepted into a top university on merit alone

December 13, 2017

The Conversation | By Natasha Warikoo (PhD '05), Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University and the author of The Diversity Bargain and Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016).



Young Black People Are Radically Reimagining What Political Activism Can Be

March 1, 2016

The New York Times | By Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor, Harvard Kennedy School. Part of a Room for Debate forum: "Making Black Voices Matter."



Young men falling to the bottom of the income ladder

May 22, 2017

Boston Globe | Quotes Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics: "People from elite colleges moving to Wall Street and top law firms and to tech companies are doing perfectly fine. In fact, they're doing much better than comparable people in their parents' generation," Katz said. "But for the typical young man, they're donig substantially worse economically than their father."

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