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When President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law in March of this year, observers described it as “the second war on poverty,” almost matching in scope and […]

The AAPSS Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize event and panel discussion that took place on May 13, 2021, focused on the future of cooperative solutions to climate change and how leaders […]

To me, some of the most hopeful statistics reported since President Biden’s inauguration have to do with cable news primetime viewership. That CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News have all seen […]

Watch the event here Every year, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 increases, and the world experiences more of the effects of climate change. International approaches to lowering emissions [...]

Marta Tienda will be the next president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, succeeding Ken Prewitt,  who has led the organization since 2015. Her term begins on July […]

From birth to age 18, over one-third of U.S. children are investigated by child welfare systems due to allegations of child abuse and neglect, one-eighth are determined to be victims […]

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Special issue editors and conference organizers: Rajeev Darolia (University of Kentucky) and Colleen Heflin (Syracuse [...]

Five distinguished scholars will be inducted as Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) in 2021. The AAPSS inducts a new cohort of Fellows each year, […]

By Kenneth Prewitt, AAPSS President Driven by a sense of urgency, it is likely that every reader of this note is watching the sizable number of social scientists joining the […]

From birth to age 18, over one-third of U.S. children are investigated by child welfare systems due to allegations of child abuse and neglect, one-eighth are determined to be victims […]