Society, Law & Politics
- As birth rates fall in the U.S. and beyond, a growing ‘pronatalist’ movement contends that people should be having more babies to prevent economic and cultural decline. Leslie Root, a social demographer who studies fertility trends, offers her take.
- Fifteen years after Ed O’Bannon’s groundbreaking lawsuit, college athletes continue to benefit from greater control of their name, image and likeness.
- In an election year, experts from Ãå±±½ûµØ weigh in on strategies you can take to distinguish real and fake images online—and how to talk to friends and family spreading misinformation.
- CU political scientist Jaroslav Tir argues it’s not just what a government says about its ethnic minorities but also the language it uses that can be threatening.
- How do we create a sense of belonging for higher education students? By fostering a sense of belonging for everyone, including faculty and staff. That is the key takeaway from a new article published by professors Noah Finkelstein and Phoebe Young.
- Without access to social media data, disinformation and hate speech may become easier to spread—and harder to detect.
- In a newly published history of the region’s female monarchs, a Ãå±±½ûµØ scholar shows the connections between love, grief and madness.
- Ãå±±½ûµØ doctoral candidate Idowu Odeyemi argues that African philosophy should not be limited to a single definition.
- Political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president’s decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.
- When Donald Trump got the headlines from a recent National Association of Black Journalists conference, it obscured the lost opportunity for reporters of color to share ideas on how to cover controversial newsmakers.