Society, Law & Politics
- Associate professors Angie Chuang and Matthew Koschmann took part in a community roundtable to explore how we can stay good neighbors amid intense polarization.
- The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·-based Youth Violence Prevention Center has launched a new app, the Power of One, to help Northeast Denver youth connect struggling friends and loved ones with the support they need. The app grew out of concerns that some marginalized communities may be hesitant to use Safe2Tell.
- A nonpartisan, campuswide initiative aims to help students get registered and vote, as well as learn about the candidates and issues.
- As birth rates fall in the U.S. and beyond, a growing ‘pronatalist’ movement contends that people should be having more babies to prevent economic and cultural decline. Leslie Root, a social demographer who studies fertility trends, offers her take.
- Fifteen years after Ed O’Bannon’s groundbreaking lawsuit, college athletes continue to benefit from greater control of their name, image and likeness.
- In an election year, experts from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· weigh in on strategies you can take to distinguish real and fake images online—and how to talk to friends and family spreading misinformation.
- CU political scientist Jaroslav Tir argues it’s not just what a government says about its ethnic minorities but also the language it uses that can be threatening.
- How do we create a sense of belonging for higher education students? By fostering a sense of belonging for everyone, including faculty and staff. That is the key takeaway from a new article published by professors Noah Finkelstein and Phoebe Young.
- Without access to social media data, disinformation and hate speech may become easier to spread—and harder to detect.
- In a newly published history of the region’s female monarchs, a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· scholar shows the connections between love, grief and madness.