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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 […]

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 […]