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Q&A: Public opinion research in changing times

Between the July assassination attempt on Donald Trump, President Biden dropping out of the race and Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic nominee, this past summer was unlike any other period in the 2024 presidential race. ...

People underestimate the income of the top 1%, researchers find

People selectively underestimate how rich the world's richest people are, according to a study. Increasing income inequality in many countries is driven by steep gains among the top 1% of earners. In the United States, support ...

Leveraging body-camera footage to analyze police training impact

A study used body-worn camera footage as a source of data on police-community interactions. Nicholas Camp and colleagues analyzed transcripts from 615 police stops made in California by Oakland Police Department police officers ...

The dynamics of climate policy narratives in the UK

A new study published in Climate Policy, co-authored by Dr. Daniel Valdenegro of Oxford University's Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science, exposes the dynamics of competing narratives on climate change between political ...

How a German peasant became the face of Nazi race laws

Many histories of Nazi Germany are accompanied by a photograph of two scientists measuring a man's facial features with a caliper. The picture is often contextualized, in these books, museums, and image archives as an illustration ...

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Lessons from the biggest business tax cut in US history

Congress is spoiling for a tax battle in 2025. Key parts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are set to expire. Most urgent to many voters are sunsetting provisions aimed at households, including the more generous Child Tax ...