Social Sciences
Explore faculty and student work in economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and other disciplines shaping our understanding of society.
Why America’s Strategy For Reducing Racial Inequality Failed
Harvard professor Christina Cross debunks the myth of the two-parent Black family.
by Saima Sidik
An Exchange of Violence
On the “exit wounds” of America’s gun industry in Mexico
The Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
Reparations for Slavery?
Documenting the history and scope of federal “reparatory compensation.”
The Off-Kilter Economy
Reckoning with inflation and its remedies
Where We Went Wrong
A sweeping history of society and the economy in the twentieth century
Will Global Democracy Survive?
Scholars on the current rise of fascism, domestically and abroad
America’s Riven Politics
A Harvard Magazine Q & A with Evan Osnos ’98, author of Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
Seeking the First Speakers of Indo-European Language
Ancient DNA sheds new light on the origins of a lingua franca.
Who Should Drive an Electric Vehicle?
Targeting the wrong buyers—and producing more greenhouse-gas emissions
Origins of the Urban Housing Crisis
The high costs of environmental, historic-preservation, and other good intentions