Sociology

The crime issue, a focus of the 2024 presidential election, is sometimes rooted in the misplaced fears of people who live in some of the safest places

The depiction of the climate crisis as a cliff—once we fall off the edge, it’s game over—is nonsense

The COVID pandemic and the police murder of George Floyd polarized views on policing. Rather than abolishing policing or maintaining its status quo, we need to make it better and more focused

Researchers use powerful geometrical methods to try fixing unfair districts. That alone isn’t enough; we need to fight the values behind gerrymandering

Researchers are studying how to maximize creativity and connection in remote and hybrid work settings

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data

These projected findings about depopulation in U.S. cities are shaped by a multitude of factors, including the decline of industry, lower birth rates and the impacts of climate change

Networked incitement, including cellphones and social media, powered the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol

The overuse of dangerous pesticides in Brazil threatens public health and serves as a warning to the rest of the world about the dangers of science denial

Experts weigh in on how you can navigate social gatherings and travel as respiratory illnesses rise this winter

Far-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and offline hate followed the same trends 

Why scary things can be fun, how to grow materials in space, and language’s influence on the mind