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In a new book, Martha Minow, the AAPSS 2017 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, asks what forgiveness can achieve in this age of resentment. When Should Law Forgive? explores the complicated intersection [...]

The Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) awards the prestigious A.SK Social Science Award every two years to recognize researchers who make outstanding contributions to social and political reform. [...]

Paul Volcker, the 2012 recipient of the AAPSS Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize, died on December 9, 2019, at the age of 92. Volcker helped to shape American economic policy in public service for [...]

Harvard sociologist and AAPSS Fellow Orlando Patterson looks closely at Jamaica, his native land, in his new book, The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament. Drawing on [...]

In his new book, Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream, AAPSS Fellow Nicholas Lemann—dean emeritus of the Columbia University Graduate School of [...]