News & Stories Breadcrumb Home All Feature Stories Research News & Awards Q&A Community Profiles Feb 02, 2023 SPIA Reacts: What Policymakers Can Do Now to Drive Meaningful Change Following the Police Killing of Tyre Nichols Following the killing of Tyre Nichols, many across the country are again asking themselves ‘why’? Why do these incidents continue to happen? Despite… Jan 09, 2023 SPIA Reacts: Implications of the Taliban's Decision to Ban Women and Girls From Attending School in Afghanistan Late last December, the Taliban announced plans to ban women from attending universities and girls from attending schools in Afghanistan, one of the… Nov 09, 2022 SPIA Reacts: Insights on the Implications of the U.S. Midterm Elections There’s still much to unpack about what Election Day and the campaigns that preceded it mean for the U.S. election process, continued attempts to… Oct 11, 2022 SPIA Reacts: Protests in Iran More than three weeks after the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police, deadly anti-government protests continue across… Sep 15, 2022 SPIA Reacts: Have Migrants Become 'Political Pawns'? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard on Sept. 14, causing confusion on the Massachusetts island. A day… Aug 24, 2022 “Young, Gifted and Diverse” — Q&A with the Authors Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Drawing from a representative sample of over a… Jun 24, 2022 Roe V. Wade Is Overturned Today, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark ruling that protected women’s rights to choose an abortion. The decision… Feb 07, 2022 Q&A: Defining the Age: Daniel Bell The sociologist Daniel Bell was described as one of the leading American intellectuals of the post-war era. He acutely defined the structural forces… Jan 24, 2022 Hooked: How Politics Captures People’s Interest (Markus Prior) “Good citizenship” is often a consequence of political interest, and early adulthood may be the most formative time to develop political passion,… Sep 29, 2021 SPIA Reacts: Haitians at the Texas Border Thousands of Haitian migrants flocked to Del Rio, Texas, in recent weeks to attempt border crossing into the U.S. Since then, the Department of… Aug 17, 2021 SPIA Reacts: Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan The Taliban stormed Kabul on Sunday, stealing control of Afghanistan from the Afghan government. Now, Afghans and Americans present in the country… Oct 23, 2019 Andlinger Center Speaks: Why the Messenger Matters in Climate Action
