Society & Policy

Having the first African American woman in history on the 2020 Presidential Ballot could change the game among voters, according to Northwestern Professor Alvin Tillery.  Kamala Harris, a female and African-American Democrat from California, has made her platform known as a...

Researchers from Northwestern University have been investigating the effects of electric vehicles (EVs) on the United States economy and population. The research team found that if EVs replaced 25% of combustion-engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save...

Beth Redbird, Institute for Policy Research (IPR) sociologist and Professor of the Department of Sociology, took data from 1999-2015 measuring racial disparity in policing. Along with her graduate research assistant, Kat Albrecht, Redbird has created a county-by-county police bias map,...

Among an ongoing national survey, the majority of the American population has shared positive attitudes regarding getting the Covid-19 vaccine. James Druckman, Payson S. Wild Professor of political science in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and associate director...

The study "Redistribution Through Markets" was recently published in the journal Econometrica. This research reveals that free markets are optimal under some circumstances – but at other times price controls can be a better solution, especially when there is extreme...

In 1975 Northwestern founded the Women's Studies Program. This program was in response to questions pertaining to the tenure of female professors, comparison of salaries between male and female professors, and how to best support graduate students who still wanted...

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’s “Conversation with the Dean” is a faculty speaker series designed to deliver insights into the cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The series is offered live to Weinberg College leadership...

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences’s “Conversation with the Dean” is a faculty speaker series designed to deliver insights into the cutting-edge research and teaching from faculty experts around the College. The series is offered live to Weinberg College leadership...

Department of History Professor Geraldo Cadava discusses his book, The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump (Ecco, May 2020) in the Northwestern Now story: ‘Latinos aren’t naturally liberal or conservative’  “Politicians need to take...

According to the Chicago Department of Public Health, there has been a statistically larger amount of Latinx and African American Chicago residents who have contracted or died from COVID-19 than white residents. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made a point to reference...