Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.

The Trump administration is pursuing sweeping changes to the federal workforce, aiming to increase political control over civil servants and reduce the size of the bureaucracy. The new Department of G...

2025 Winter Schedule: Wednesdays at 12 noon - 1pm Eastern Time. February 5th - Dan Gross (Duke) "The Therapeutic Consequences of the War: World War II and the 20th Century Expansion of Biomedicine ...

We may be on the cusp of an era of astonishing innovation — the limits of which aren’t even clear yet.

2025 Winter Schedule: Wednesdays at 12 noon - 1pm Eastern Time. February 5th - Dan Gross (Duke) "The Therapeutic Consequences of the War: World War II and the 20th Century Expansion of Biomedicine ...

President Biden urges continued support for struggling "left-behind" communities through an executive order focused on economic recovery and regional development. This order extends a bipartisan agend...

Abstract. This article studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing plants on the regions where they were built and on indi

The conference brought together leading researchers developing new methods of automated data extraction and applying them to frontier social-science research.