America has both the highest gun death rate (12 per 100,000 persons) and the highest gun circulation rate (about 121 firearms in circulation for every 100 persons) of any developed country. Taken [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated much of the attention our nation has paid to public health in the past few years, yet the opioid epidemic has continued to rage on in the U.S. and Canada. Some [...]
For the last 100 years, single-parent families have captured the attention of policymakers, social reformers and researchers in the U.S. This attention is well deserved, as single-parent [...]
The United States’ systems of parole and probation are, by and large, failing to promote public safety and failing to rehabilitate the millions of people that they supervise; in fact, probation [...]
Science is vulnerable to threats that undermine its usefulness. In this volume of The ANNALS, special editor James N. Druckman argues that politicization, misinformation, and growing [...]
In this volume of The ANNALS, “Democratic Vulnerabilities,” special editors Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, and Thomas B. Pepinsky bring together political scientists to focus on the promises [...]
In this timely volume of The ANNALS, “The COVID-19 Shock to Our Deep Inequities: How to Mitigate the Impact,” special editors Carol Graham, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, and Edward Lawlor bring [...]
In “Making Sense of One Another in Crossing Borders: Social Cognition and Migration Politics,” special editors Ilka Vari-Lavoisier and Susan T. Fiske, with consulting editors Christophe Nordman [...]
“As a rapidly aging nation, the future economic health of the United States will increasingly hinge on the resources that we invest to support the early development and subsequent educational [...]
Dramatic macroeconomic events have marked the first 21 years of the twenty-first century. The Great Recession (2007–2009), the largest and longest downturn since the Great Depression, was [...]
