The Greek philosopher Plato proposed gender equality, arguing women could participate in political and military life in his Republic.

This story is part of the "Hidden Canon" – a special series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature and aiming to bring it to a wider international audience. The series is supported ...

The Strait of Hormuz is central to the ongoing conflict reshaping the Middle East, affecting global energy markets and American influence.

Imagine you’re at the supermarket one day, but weirdly your card doesn’t work. You try to check your account online, and it doesn’t let you log in. You call the bank, but it tells you that it’s unable ...

Writing for the blog of the Law and Political Economy Project, Beau Baumann, a professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, has a provocative question for would-be left-wing ...

Why facts backfire in political debates, and what psychology says works to bridge divides and prevent radicalization.

The Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder has a long and vibrant tradition of excellence in training graduate students. Our diverse faculty of nearly 30 train graduate ...

Thomas Taggart of Indiana died last week. Death carried off a strong man. In 1856 he was born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began.

He and Thomas J. Sargent shared the prize in 2011 for devising statistical tools to help guide economic policymakers.

New economic models can help policymakers better understand the effects of their inflation-taming measures Much about today’s inflation is not well understood. Why are some households seriously harmed ...

Socionomics is a financial theory that some kind of collective social mood drives observable political, economic, and financial trends.