Social Justice

Temperatures are rising, and so are mental health risks

The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy

The U.S. needs to set an example for the rest of the world by taking our nuclear missiles off hair-trigger alert and negotiating a reduction of our arsenal

Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes one rural sociologist

Einstein offers a lesson for scientists who are protesting an out-of-control nationalist administration attacking U.S. science today

A Trump-aligned prosecutor’s attack on medical journals is a threat to your health care—and the medical establishment should not comply

Science cannot operate like a black box and expect the trust of the public

New studies underscore the difficulty of implanting entirely fictional events in a person’s recollection

Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media titans knowingly poison our politics, peddling lies and stoking angry divides for profit

About 20 people die every day in the U.S. after being hit by a car. To make walking safer, we need a big cultural shift in how we view pedestrian safety

“Stand Up for Science” shows how science supporters are coming together

Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality, so biology cannot be invoked as a basis for “immutable” legal classifications