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Atlanta's BeltLine shows how urban parks can drive 'green gentrification,' inequality

Is Atlanta a good place to live? Recent rankings certainly say so. In September 2022, Money magazine rated Atlanta the... Read more

Q&A: Gun violence pressures elected officials to make reforms

With three mass shooting within a week leaving 24 Californians dead, public policy makers are searching for answers.... Read more

Rural water infrastructure development research demonstrates ethnically, racially uneven economic outcomes

A research study led by J. Tom Mueller, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability,... Read more

Are millennials getting more conservative as they age? Why it's hard to know

"As people age, they become more conservative" is a well worn political aphorism. It is cited frequently in discussions and... Read more

Study: Modern arms technologies help autocratic rulers stay in power

Autocrats and dictators quickly acquire new arms technologies from abroad and often use them against their own citizens. Now a... Read more

Investigating ways to speed up the abolishment of female circumcision

Female circumcision is so harmful that it is quite clear that society would be better off without this kind of... Read more

Tracking online hate speech that follows real-world events

A machine-learning analysis has revealed patterns in online hate speech that suggest complex—and sometimes counterintuitive—links between real-world events and different... Read more

Social work researchers examine the health impacts of US immigration policy

Immigration is one of the most controversial social and political issues in American life. Yet little attention is given to... Read more

COVID-19 conspiracy theories that spread fastest focused on evil, secrecy

In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter highlighted malicious purposes and secretive actions of... Read more

Age over youth? How the 'grandfather effect' is shaping world politics

As millennial and post-millennial voters become the largest group of voters around the world, Flinders University experts warn that the... Read more

Can online civic education strengthen democratic values?

A study published in the American Journal of Political Science shows that civic education interventions can work to increase support... Read more

Study finds enforcement is key to mandatory voting

Mandatory voting laws are known to increase voter turnout, but how significant are their effects?... Read more

Identity—not income—drives desire to secede, according to new model

What most sparks a region's desire to seek independence from their country—income or identity?... Read more

Gun control measures associated with reduced police use of force

As police departments and activists look for strategies to reduce excessive use of force by police, new research from the... Read more

Supporting evidence-based policymaking in The Gambia

Researchers working on the FACE-Africa project have co-developed country-specific information and tools with Gambian food system stakeholders to evaluate possible... Read more