Social Sciences

If American liberals do not pivot from their complacency soon, they may find themselves ushered to an untimely funeral.

A new Yale School of Public Health study finds that an estimated 83 percent of the planet’s lesbian, gay, and bisexual people keep their orientation hidden.

The seminar “MANY: Facilitating Migration Through an Exchange of Needs” aims to compile practical research and viewpoints about migration — and to spur action.

Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal (Columbia University Press)

Citizens favor expanding benefits via the tax code — even when it’s clear that higher-income households will get more of those benefits.

A team of researchers working in Ethiopia have discovered the earliest-known examples of complex stone tools, dating back at least 2.58 million years.

John E. Roemer, the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics (Yale University Press)

Jack M. Balkin, the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment (The University of Chicago Press)

We won’t fix what’s ailing our economy until we rebuild our fraying social contract.

Power is rhetoric, and the ability to convince others they ought to do what you want them to do.