In LitHub’s “Fiction/Non/Fiction” podcast and The New Yorker Radio Hour, respectively, Yale historians Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder discuss Putin, Russia, and the turmoil in Ukraine.
Marci Shore on a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine
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As the granddaughter of Armenian genocide survivors, Dr. Sharon Chekijian, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale, has long had an interest in her family’s native country. She visited for the first time as a college student in 1991 as part...
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...
As the standard narrative goes, the tensions and conflicts that have afflicted the Middle East over the past century originate with the arbitrary redrawing of the region’s map by the British and French after the Ottoman Empire collapsed during World War I...
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Yale political scientist Hélène Landemore to the governance committee overseeing a citizens’ convention that will reconsider France’s laws on assisted suicide and euthanasia.
The new assembly, which will...
A surging vitality marked Yale in the year 2022, along with a resumption of ritual and routine — inside classrooms, labs, and studios, on stages and athletic fields, in museums and across quadrangles.
Yale scholars and scientists tackled some of the most...