On Jan. 12, a day before voting to impeach President Donald Trump, charging him with “incitement of insurrection,” the U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution asking Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to strip the...
In today’s economy, American businesses often tap into professional management to grow. But most firms in India and other developing countries are family owned and often shun hiring non-relatives to manage their companies. A new study co-authored by Yale...
The perception that the U.S. government distributes money unfairly across racial lines is a major driver of public opposition to federal spending, argues a new study co-authored by Yale political scientist Kelly Rader.
Using original survey data, the...
The 2011 Arab Spring set both Tunisia and Egypt on a course toward democratization, but their trajectories soon diverged.
Tunisian political elites have since cooperated in passing a constitution, holding elections, and executing a successful transfer of...
Pandemic-related school closures are deepening educational inequality in the United States by severely impairing the academic progress of children from low-income neighborhoods while having no significantly detrimental effects on students from the county’...
White evangelical Christians have resisted getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at higher rates than other religious groups in the United States. A new study by Yale researchers provides evidence that persuading these vaccine holdouts to get their shots...
Architect Constance Adams ’90 M.Arch. designed housing in Berlin and created urban plans in Tokyo. But she achieved her greatest acclaim conceiving habitats for space explorers.
Known as a “space architect,” Adams designed NASA’s TransHab, an inflatable,...
The artist Kehinde Wiley’s work often reinvents portrait paintings by old masters, inserting Black subjects in place of white nobles, saints, and dignitaries. His “Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite,” recently co-acquired by...
A study by researchers at Yale and Stanford universities reveals a significant increase in lawsuits over unpaid hospital bills in Wisconsin, providing further evidence of the financial hardship that the U.S. health care system is causing patients.
The...
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, when governors across the United States were closing businesses and schools to slow the virus’ spread, people in the South stayed home at lower rates than residents of other regions of the country, according to a Yale-led...