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How rising U.S. income inequality exacerbates racial economic disparities

August 23, 2018

Washington Center for Equitable Growth | By Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. This article summarizes findings from “Income Inequality and the Persistence of Racial Economic Disparities” in Sociological Science. 

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How Recent Immigration Complicates Our Racial Justice Policies

April 10, 2014

Pacific Standard | by Asad L. Asad (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology)



How Colleges Fail Poor Students

January 18, 2016

Minnesota Public Radio—MPR News with Kerri Miller | Anthony Abraham Jack (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology) guests to discuss what his dissertation research shows [audio 40 min].



How ALEC helped undermine public unions

December 17, 2014

The Washington Post | by Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy)



Gun deaths involving children are devastating. The NRA has no idea what to say about them.

April 9, 2015

Washington Post | By Nathan J. Robinson, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy



From the Tea Party to the Resistance

February 20, 2020

No Jargon | Leah E. Gose, a PhD candidate in Sociology and a Malcolm Hewitt Wiener PhD Scholar in Poverty and Justice, explains how The Resistance compares with the Tea Party and what we can learn by looking at them together. A podcast of the Scholars Strategy Network.



Forensic Pseudoscience: The Unheralded Crisis of Criminal Justice

November 16, 2015

Boston Review | By Nathan J. Robinson, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy.  
One of The Aspen Institute's 'Five Best Ideas of the Day'.




Five Myths about the Koch Brothers—And Why it Matters to Set Them Straight

March 10, 2016

Moyers & Company | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) and Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology).



Europeans have lost faith in their governments and institutions. Why? We did the research.

September 22, 2017

Washington Post | By Chase Foster and Jeff Frieden. Chase Foster is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard and an Inequality & Social Policy doctoral fellow. Jeff Frieden is a Professor of Government. 
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Employer Political Coercion: A Growing Threat

November 23, 2015

The American Prospect | By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy. Appears in fall 2015 print edition. 

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