"Sticks and stones may break my bones," the old adage goes. "But words will never hurt me." Tell that to Eugenia Rho, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and she will show you ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

The representation of Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi scholars in India’s premier academic institutions and mainstream social science discourse remains limited, with these spaces often dominated by ...

Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed. The entwining of data and theory is especially fraught ...

As with most disasters, when the history of the COVID pandemic is written, there will be a fair amount of finger-pointing involved. Much more could have been done to mitigate the coronavirus impact in ...

Ron Borzekowski, who spent several years leading the Office of Research at the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has been named the inaugural executive director of Yale’s ...