DURHAM, N.C. – Two Duke faculty are among nearly 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, policy, research and science ...

Economic insecurity, staggering levels of inequality, declining social trust and social fragmentation are destabilizing societies worldwide. The World Social Report 2025, released today, reveals ...

When Logic FailsFor centuries, economics was built on a clean, mathematical premise: people make rational choices. They weigh costs ...

For this report, we grouped countries into high-income and middle-income categories based on definitions from the World Bank.

Most learners in Grade 9 are choosing social sciences as their preferred career pathway, a new study has found, going against government efforts to steer students towards science, technology, ...

Kim Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History, has won the 2025 Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize ...

UCSB sociologist Dana Kornberg examines how race, caste and institutional access shape unequal pathways to status and wealth ...

The University of South Carolina renamed its College of Arts and Sciences after alumnus and businessman, Peter McCausland, ...

Matson earned his PhD in economics from George Mason University and his research focuses on eighteenth-​century British moral ...

University is ending its old-school major in philosophy but also one in fintech from 2022. See the list of what's staying and ...

John Friedman, a professor of economics and international and public affairs, has been named the inaugural dean of the Watson ...

When science serves a cause, truth takes a back seat. This post explores how activism distorts research and why it matters.