Social Science Space

The Social Security Administration has shown its ability to cut monthly checks for elderly, survivors and disabled. So why not for kids via their parents?

A sociologist who has helped understand the complex issues of race in the United States, a political scientist who heads the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and a psychologist whose work explains how we as human respond to threat are among the new class of fellows for the American Academy of Political and Social Science.