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Two adults sit on a rug in a makeshift tent surrounded by crates, clothing, and large plastic water jugs. Five children sit beside them. One of the adults has a notebook and gestures as if explaining something to the other. The other adult faces him attentively.

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Spring 2025

The Ethics of Social Research: Perspectives from the Study of the Middle East and North Africa

Editors Lisa Anderson, Rabab El-Mahdi, and Seteney Shami

A portrait of an ill child sitting on a caregiver’s lap, slouching to the point of practically lying down. The caregiver looks to the child. The child looks toward the viewer.

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Winter 2025

The Social Science of Caregiving

Editors Alison Gopnik, Margaret Levi, and Zachary Ugolnik

Economy & Business

Philosophy & Religion

Poems & Fiction

Society & Health

Six young students sit in a classroom in Gansu province, China. They look toward the front of the class. One student holds a book. The students have light brown skin and black hair. Many wear short white hats traditional among Salar people.

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Fall 2024

The Global Quest for Educational Equity

Editor James A. Banks

Democracy & Justice

In a full-color illustration, a robot sits at a desk surrounded by newspapers. Several other robots work at desks in the background where newsprint papers the walls.

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Summer 2024

The Future of Free Speech

Editors Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey Richard Stone

Democracy & Justice

A digital rendering shows an aerial view of a model of the initial campus plans designed by Moshe Safdie for the Asian University for Women. The model has curving green spaces, roads, small bodies of water, and beige buildings.

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Spring 2024

Advances and Challenges in International Higher Education

Editors Wendy Fischman , Howard Earl Gardner, and William C. Kirby

Arts & Humanities

Democracy & Justice

Society & Health

A crowded subway platform shows several commuters turning to face the viewer. Their heads are surrounded by digital boxes that label each an arbitrary number, implying categorization by facial recognition software. The commuters appear to be of various races and ages.

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Winter 2024

Understanding Implicit Bias: Insights & Innovations

Editors Goodwin Liu and Camara Phyllis Jones

Democracy & Justice

Economy & Business

Society & Health

A nineteenth-century expressionist oil painting of a melancholy man sitting at the shore

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Fall 2023

Mental Health

Editor Arthur Michael Kleinman

Philosophy & Religion

Society & Health

Candid photograph of a teacher sitting around a table and laughing with several high school English students

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Summer 2023

Language & Social Justice in the United States

Editors Walt Wolfram, Anne H. Charity Hudley, and Guadalupe Valdés

Arts & Humanities

Democracy & Justice

Philosophy & Religion

Society & Health

A painting of two people riding bicycles past anti-tank obstacles beside a river in Ukraine. The day is sunny and green trees stand across the riverbank.

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Spring 2023

Delivering Humanitarian Health Services in Violent Conflicts

Editors Jaime Sepúlveda, Jennifer M. Welsh, and Paul H. Wise

A detail of an illustrated storyboard showing dejected commuters from the perspective of a passing tram. Hidden among them is a strange winged creature with a lightbulb for a head, representing an alternative to the bleak urban industrial environment.

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Winter 2023

Creating a New Moral Political Economy

Editors Margaret Levi and Henry Farrell

Democracy & Justice

Economy & Business

Energy & Environment

Society & Health

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Fall 2022

Institutions, Experts & the Loss of Trust

Editors Henry E. Brady and Kay Lehman Schlozman

Democracy & Justice

Economy & Business

Energy & Environment

Philosophy & Religion

Science & Technology

Society & Health

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Summer 2022

The Humanities in American Life: Transforming the Relationship with the Public

Editors Carin Berkowitz, Norman Marshall Bradburn, and Robert B. Townsend

Arts & Humanities

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Spring 2022

AI & Society

Editor James M. Manyika

Science & Technology

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Winter 2022

Reimagining Justice: The Challenges of Violence & Punitive Excess

Editor Bruce Western

Democracy & Justice

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Fall 2021

Water Security in Africa in the Age of Global Climate Change

Editors Allen F. Isaacman, Muchaparara Musemwa, and Harry Verhoeven

Energy & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Health

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Summer 2021

The Administrative State in the Twenty-First Century: Deconstruction and/or Reconstruction

Editor Mark V. Tushnet

Democracy & Justice