Social Justice

When men suffer social isolation, women may pay the price, too

Donald Trump has joined big firms in demanding workers end remote work. But the evidence suggests that hurts both workers and the work

Three forensic examiners at the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory last year mistakenly concluded that cartridge cases from a crime scene matched a specific firearm. The error exposes systemic flaws that risk wrongful convictions

People hoping that progress on climate action will accelerate like sudden changes in our physical world must prepare for a long, hard struggle

Supreme Court arguments over trans health care makes plain how badly we need personalized health care in all of medicine

Although warring MAGA factions seem locked in a foreign worker battle with no middle ground, two straightforward changes would provide global talent while minimizing domestic job losses

The full potential of public opinion polling lies in its ability to illuminate deeper societal trends beyond electoral forecasts

Early cultural exposure can influence kids’ ideas about gender and STEM in significant ways

In 2018 a group of students at Dartmouth College filed a lawsuit that revealed an entrenched culture of power and abuse, and in doing so, they sparked a wider conversation about sexual violence in science.

Reaction to a recent Pew survey on the public’s trust in science shows that the scientific community is not ready to address the real problem

Scientific racism today must be seen and rejected for what it truly is—a hollow attempt to dress discrimination in the garb of science and reason

Large language models can create muddled, misinformed multiverses