Social Justice

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

Voters supported abortion rights measures while electing antiabortion candidates in the 2024 election. The split reflects a complicated abortion landscape post-Dobbs

Despite investigative genetic genealogy revolutionizing cold case investigations, it has been underused to free the wrongly convicted

A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House

Prominent vaccine skeptic RFK, Jr., is a proven menace to public health. But with a bird flu outbreak looming, he is poised to take a perch atop the federal public health enterprise

To heal political division, start with common moral ground, a study suggests

Anti-intellectualism is a prevalent and pernicious force in American public life. Stimulating interest in science may combat its influence