While serving at the forefront of the civil and women’s rights movements, Pauli Murray ’65 J.S.D., ’79 Hon. D.Div. endured many defeats and setbacks. But she maintained hope and lived to see — as she once put it — her “lost causes found.”
Murray’s legacy...
In the mid-1960s, James M. Gustafson, a professor of Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, mentored a cohort of remarkably talented students. Many of those young scholars, united by their admiration for Gustafson, would help found the field of...
Yale historian David Blight visited Richmond, Virginia, often in the late 1990s while researching the Civil War’s effect on American memory. When not sifting through archives, he’d jog along the city’s famed Monument Avenue, named for the five grandiose...
Yale University and 150 other colleges and universities nationwide have joined an amicus brief supporting a program that allows international students to gain work experience outside the classroom in their fields of study.
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As president, Donald Trump took an expansive view of his executive power. He demanded loyalty of administrators. And when professionals in the federal bureaucracy appeared to defy his wishes, Trump and his allies accused “the deep state” of undermining...
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...
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...
A federal district judge has invalidated sweeping restrictions the Trump administration sought to impose on the H-1B “specialty worker” visa program that Yale and other research universities rely on to hire foreign faculty members, postdoctoral fellows,...
A new study casts doubt on a promising application of the timeworn theory — posited by thinkers such as Rousseau, Alexander de Tocqueville, and John Stuart Mill — that political engagement, such as voting, fosters good citizens and makes people more...
Police departments across the nation have embraced body-worn cameras as a tool for reducing police misconduct and building trust between law-enforcement officers and the communities they serve.
In a new study, The Lab @ DC, a research lab within...