Social Sciences

The co-author of a new book about the strategic causes of proliferation discusses why some nations choose to acquire nuclear weapons, while others do not.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller contends that conflating the American Dream with expensive houses has had dangerous consequences.

The healthcare policy expert talks about the current debate in Congress over healthcare reform and his ideas for improving the nation’s healthcare system.

Issues such as climate change, globalization, health care, and more are the center of current research in economics, at the Cowles Foundation.

A research collaboration between Yale SOM and Mexican organizations will study how to create effective police departments in Mexico.

Kate Baldwin was recently named as the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science.

The revelation that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer to obtain incriminating information about Hillary Clinton has sparked another round of...

Since May 16 Senator Marco Rubio has tweeted a biblical verse almost every day. Almost all of them come from the Old Testament, and specifically the book of...

With its enormous killing radius, a hydrogen bomb turns what is today a dangerous nuclear threat from North Korea into the powder keg of Northeast Asia.

In May 1997, six female students at Yale Divinity School created a pact that led to a 20-year bond, enacted through a continuing chain of letters. The...