Despite a midterm election largely free of controversy over its legitimacy, a large percentage of Americans distrust elections. And that’s dangerous for democracy.
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Office work feels draining for a reason. Your brain builds up toxic chemicals when you concentrate for a long time.
Nonhuman primates like rhesus monkeys share certain characteristics with people that may make them better study subjects than mice for research on neurodegenerative diseases.
Lumumba Hall residents are more generous and trust each other more than Livingstone Hall residents do.
People penalized for violating a group’s shared rules could go on to disrupt its functioning, out of revenge. Two scholars suggest a way of imposing rules.
Cartoon villains on TV crime shows obscure the huge social and personal costs of psychopathy, as well as the encouraging new science that can help treat it.
As it debunks old myths and uncovers previously ignored facts, science is finding that the vagina is both complex and busy.
A new study doubles the age of ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how people moved, mingled and had children together over the last 50,000 years.
As states devise new electoral district maps, some have adopted independent commissions to ensure fairness in that process. Do they deliver?
Of the big pledges so far at the UN climate conference, cutting methane could have the most immediate impact.
Cities and farmers in the Southwest are resorting to unsustainable strategies to pull in more water. Iran has tried many of these strategies and shows how they can go wrong.
Few people embody the contradictions of U.S. history like the author of the Star Spangled Banner, someone who denounced slavery as a moral wrong but rejected racial equality.
The archbishop’s willingness to listen to those of a different viewpoint and his staunch opposition to violence made him a pivotal figure in the end of Apartheid in South Africa.
Plus, new research from Indonesia on the relationship between cigarette advertising near schools and children smoking.
‘Local, organic, sustainable’ are common buzzwords on US restaurant menus now, but it wasn’t always that way. Alice Waters and her restaurant, Chez Panisse, helped put them there.
A report from top energy analysts warns that to meet the Paris climate agreement goals, investment in new unabated coal plant projects should stop now.
Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.
Famine was a constant threat during biblical times. The authors of the Old Testament used it to explain God’s wrath, but also as a narrative device.
There may be significant limitations to the political reform that can be realised by new president Samia Suluhu Hassan.
Scientists previously underestimated aquatic methane emissions. We must use this new information to stop methane derailing our attempts to stabilise the Earth’s temperature.
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Lecturer in Management, Yale University
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Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy, Jackson School of Public Affairs, Yale University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University
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Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Yale University
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Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University
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Senior Lecturer, Political Science Department, Yale University
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Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, Yale University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Management, Yale University
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Professor of Political Science, Yale University
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Fox Research Fellow, Yale University
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Senior lecturer in African Studies, Yale University
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Donnelley Postdoctoral Associate in Geography, Yale University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
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Professor of French and African American Studies, Yale University
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Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
