The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has named the 20 winners of the 2026 MacArthur Fellowships, often referred to as the "genius grants."

Vanderbilt University has announced it will cover the full cost of tuition for undergraduate students from families with incomes of $200,000 or less beginning fall 2027.

Punishment is commonly understood as a response to criminal behavior calibrated by offense severity or legal proportionality. This article advances a different ...

The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.

The Department proposes to revise the existing accrediting agency recognition regulations at 34 CFR part 602 to implement the directives set forth in Executive Order 14279, Reforming Accreditation to ...

Qualitative interviews are often treated as neutral tools for eliciting information, with methodological attention focused on question design, rapport, and researcher reflexivity. This article advances a methodological intervention by theorizing food as methodological ...

Early-career researchers selected for the 2026 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship program, who recently began their 12-week assignments at the National Academies, will learn firsthand about science and technology policy as they work closely with scientists, engineers, and medical professionals helping the National Academies address some of the most pressing challenges facing our nation and the world.

The Trump administration is taking the unprecedented step of creating lists of adult citizens who are eligible to vote in each state – but will not meet its own deadline 60 days before Election Day.

In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a program to identify and monitor landslide hotspots in Ne

Under the proposal, states would no longer need to provide public notice or solicit comments on air pollution permits for data centers and other projects.

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

This article examines aguantar, the moral expectation that women endure suffering, as a form of gendered governance in rural Michoacán, Mexico. Drawing on 26 qu...

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The empirical authority of state-centered criminological knowledge often depends on the bureaucracies that decide which deaths are countable. This article conceptualizes bureaucracies of (Un)Knowing: institutional systems that organize ignorance while appearing to produce ...

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

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The new initiative lets students take classes across institutions without transferring or losing progress toward a degree.

The 2026 International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, with LSA Advance Grant funding, took place at the Universidad de Concepcion.

Like so many women denied miscarriage care since the fall of Roe v. Wade, Lynn Callaway developed an infection, according to a new lawsuit — leaving her at death’s door with no one to turn to for help...

The Supreme Court has barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.

Across courts and workplaces, appearance functions as a condition of institutional visibility. This article theorizes aesthetic governance as a sociolegal mecha...