In 1987, G. Scott Morris ’79 M.Div. founded Church Health, a non-profit organization that provides healthcare services to uninsured and underserved people in Memphis, Tennessee, and its suburbs. He’s built it into the nation’s largest privately funded,...
States regularly use administrative records, such as motor-vehicle data, in determining whether people have moved to prune their voter rolls. A Yale-led study of this process in Wisconsin shows that a significant percentage of registered voters are...
Mariana Di Giacomo regularly peers into the menacing orange eye of a Tyrannosaurus rex. She checks the ancient predator’s dagger-like teeth and inspects his grayish scales.
As the Peabody Museum of Natural History undergoes a full-building renovation, the...
U.S. trade policy is at a crossroads. Will President Biden make a clean break from his predecessor’s protectionist policies and embrace the trading system that Americans helped create last century?
“Trade in the 21st Century: Back to the Past?” (Brookings...
Soaring health care costs in the United States burden families with expensive premiums and account for nearly a third of the federal budget. A new project based at Yale University is providing policymakers with evidence-based proposals to eliminate...
President Joe Biden quickly declared climate change one of the most urgent threats facing the country and the world, and he’s tapped a familiar Yale figure to lead his administration’s global response to it: John Kerry ’66.
For the former Secretary of...
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sharp decline in living standards and rising food insecurity in developing countries across the globe, according to a new study by an international team of economists.
The study, published Feb. 5 in the journal...
Stayed up past your bedtime? Check the lunar cycle. Moonlight might be to blame.
A new study co-authored by Yale anthropologists Claudia Valeggia and Eduardo Fernández-Duque found that lunar phases affect people’s sleep schedules. According to their...
During the COVID-19 pandemic people across the world have adopted increasingly digital lifestyles. They stream movies, attend Zoom meetings, and sweat through online exercise classes. Many of them, however, are unlikely to consider the environmental...
A 2016 article in the New England Journal of Medicine by Yale economists Zack Cooper and Fiona Scott Morton exposed a pricey national problem: surprise medical bills.
In a study of 2.2 million emergency room visits across the United States, they found...