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Atlanta's BeltLine shows how urban parks can drive 'green gentrification,' inequality
Is Atlanta a good place to live? Recent rankings certainly say so. In September 2022, Money magazine rated Atlanta the... Read more -
Q&A: Gun violence pressures elected officials to make reforms
With three mass shooting within a week leaving 24 Californians dead, public policy makers are searching for answers.... Read more -
Rural water infrastructure development research demonstrates ethnically, racially uneven economic outcomes
A research study led by J. Tom Mueller, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability,... Read more -
Are millennials getting more conservative as they age? Why it's hard to know
"As people age, they become more conservative" is a well worn political aphorism. It is cited frequently in discussions and... Read more -
Study: Modern arms technologies help autocratic rulers stay in power
Autocrats and dictators quickly acquire new arms technologies from abroad and often use them against their own citizens. Now a... Read more -
Investigating ways to speed up the abolishment of female circumcision
Female circumcision is so harmful that it is quite clear that society would be better off without this kind of... Read more -
Tracking online hate speech that follows real-world events
A machine-learning analysis has revealed patterns in online hate speech that suggest complex—and sometimes counterintuitive—links between real-world events and different... Read more -
Social work researchers examine the health impacts of US immigration policy
Immigration is one of the most controversial social and political issues in American life. Yet little attention is given to... Read more -
COVID-19 conspiracy theories that spread fastest focused on evil, secrecy
In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter highlighted malicious purposes and secretive actions of... Read more -
Age over youth? How the 'grandfather effect' is shaping world politics
As millennial and post-millennial voters become the largest group of voters around the world, Flinders University experts warn that the... Read more -
Study finds enforcement is key to mandatory voting
Mandatory voting laws are known to increase voter turnout, but how significant are their effects?... Read more -
Identity—not income—drives desire to secede, according to new model
What most sparks a region's desire to seek independence from their country—income or identity?... Read more -
Gun control measures associated with reduced police use of force
As police departments and activists look for strategies to reduce excessive use of force by police, new research from the... Read more -
Supporting evidence-based policymaking in The Gambia
Researchers working on the FACE-Africa project have co-developed country-specific information and tools with Gambian food system stakeholders to evaluate possible... Read more -
Veganism: Political philosophers argue we should see it as a political movement rather than a dietary choice
The start of a new year these days signals the launch of Veganuary, a campaign which encourages people to give... Read more
