Rising inequality is among the most pressing issues facing the United States. Yale sociologist Rourke O’Brien studies how this affects people and society and how policy interventions could narrow the gap between rich and poor.
We caught up with O’Brien...
Millions of Americans count right-leaning Fox News as their primary source of information about politics and current events. A new working paper co-authored by Yale political scientist Joshua Kalla presents evidence of the influence such partisan media...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Tamar Gendler has announced that Kenneth Scheve will serve as the FAS Dean of Social Science for a 5-year term, effective July 1, 2022, pending formal approval by the Yale Corporation.
A member of the Faculty of...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Tamar Gendler on Friday appointed Larry Gladney as FAS Dean of Science and Kenneth Scheve as FAS Dean of Social Science, pending formal approval by the Yale Corporation.
Gladney, a renowned physicist who works at...
Can the field of economics help to achieve greater equality? Rohini Pande, an economist and director of the Yale Economic Growth Center, believes economists should consider notions of justice, not just efficiency.
As part of a large study, she and her...
The age-old adage that “history repeats itself” can pertain to everything from bad habits to global politics. But for Lauren Young, a political scientist in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences who specializes in security and defense issues, the lessons...
An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they developed agriculture are larger and more complex than...