Social Issues

The Tanners Creek Generating Station, a former 1000 MW, coal-fired electrical plant, is being taken down along the Ohio River in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, U.S., September 14, 2017. The plant was shut down in 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder SEARCH "SNYDER BARGES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Industrial decline and the rise of populists in Russia, the U.S., and Britain

Fiona Hill and David Dollar

Monday, October 11, 2021

There Is Nothing For You Here

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

By Fiona Hill

2021

FILE PHOTO: Cannabis product boxes are displayed at The Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition (CWCBExpo) trade show in New York City, New York, U.S., May 30, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

A plan for marijuana policy reform

John Hudak and Fred Dews

Friday, July 23, 2021

Smiling couple with their child

Dr. Carol Graham, Fellow at Brookings Institution (on happiness)

McKay Interview - on World Radio Switzerland

Friday, July 9, 2021

A march for racial justice and Breonna Taylor led by the Louisville Men's Basketball Team, ends with a prayer at Cardinal Stadium on Friday, September 25, 2020.Cardmarch11

Race and social justice in the 2020 presidential election

Rashawn Ray and Fred Dews

Friday, October 30, 2020

A group of children sit on a couch in a replica set from the "Seinfeld" television comedy series as they tour Hulu's "Seinfeld: The Apartment", a temporary exhibit on West 14th street in the Manhattan borough of New York City, June 24, 2015. Created to celebrate the launch of all of the episodes of the "Seinfeld" television comedy series available streaming on Hulu beginning June 24, the exhibit contains a replica version of the Upper West Side NewYork City apartment set from the series, original items and interactive elements and is open to the public through June 28. REUTERS/Mike Segar

How cultural factors shape children’s social and economic outcomes

Ron Haskins, Melissa S. Kearney, and Fred Dews

Friday, July 24, 2020

Plastic bags of Fentanyl are displayed on a table at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection area at the International Mail Facility at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. November 29, 2017. Picture taken November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Lott

Opioids in America

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Carol Graham, Keith Humphreys, Bryce Pardo, Bradley D. Stein, Paul H. Wise, and Fred Dews

Friday, July 10, 2020

Nurse practitioner Gail Brown (L) an unidentified patient and other nurses look at a print out of an ultrasound from a prenatal exam at the Maternity Outreach Mobile in Phoenix, Arizona October 8, 2009. The maternity outreach program helps uninsured women living in the Phoenix metropolitan area receive the proper treatment and care during and after their pregnancy. The Maternity Outreach Mobile is equipped with two exam rooms, an ultrasound machine, an external fetal monitor, a laboratory and offers pregnancy tests, referrals and immunization for children. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - WASE5A91J3I01

What can we do to reduce unplanned pregnancies?

Isabel V. Sawhill, Jack Markell, and Mark Edwards

Friday, July 19, 2019

Employees at work at an Amazon factory.

Robots aren’t taking the jobs, just the paychecks—and other new findings in economics

Thursday, March 8, 2018

A shadowed family walks through a town.

The changing identity of America’s middle class

Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, February 28, 2018