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Trump Administration Rules on Science Funding Likely to Hobble American Research
Investment
August 20, 2026

Trump Administration Rules on Science Funding Likely to Hobble American Research

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Influential Paper Defending Climate Change’s Great Acceleration Wins 10-year Impact Award
Interdisciplinarity
August 18, 2026

Influential Paper Defending Climate Change’s Great Acceleration Wins 10-year Impact Award

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The 5 Conduits for the Next New Deal: Balancing Urgency and Longevity
Investment
August 6, 2026

The 5 Conduits for the Next New Deal: Balancing Urgency and Longevity

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Ariel Kalil on Parents’ Role in Child Development
Public Policy
August 3, 2026

Ariel Kalil on Parents’ Role in Child Development

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A Predictable Failure: Trump’s Board of Peace

A Predictable Failure: Trump’s Board of Peace

As the US-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon drags on, bringing the world economy to the brink of collapse, U.S. President Donald […]

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Social Science Expertise Need Credible Engagement to Reach the Public

Social Science Expertise Need Credible Engagement to Reach the Public

For years, we’ve been told a familiar story: social scientists such as economists, management scholars, sociologists, talk and the public shrugs. The […]

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A Promising Early-Career Researcher Details the Harms from Battering the NSF

A Promising Early-Career Researcher Details the Harms from Battering the NSF

As a university researcher focused on education, I have spent hundreds of hours designing studies to help the field and that might […]

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Endowments and the Next New Deal: Thinking Bigger and More Creatively 

Endowments and the Next New Deal: Thinking Bigger and More Creatively 

Since its inception, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made grant payments totaling more than $90 billion. These grants have gone […]

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Tackling the Drivers of Terrorism

Tackling the Drivers of Terrorism

In the United Kingdom, thousands of Palestine Action protestors have been arrested and charged with supporting terrorism. After the dreadful 7 October […]

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JG Ballard and the Epstein Files

JG Ballard and the Epstein Files

The grudging disclosure of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the US government has rightly attracted a great deal of commentary. The responses […]

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Challenges to Democracy

Challenges to Democracy

David Canter explores the three interacting corrosive cycles that destroys democracies – limiting effective education, destroying a free press and limiting the […]

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Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap

Ellora Derenoncourt on the US Racial Wealth Gap

This Social Science Bites podcast offers a dollop of good news and heaping helping of bad. The good news is that since […]

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