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COVID

Native American Deaths from COVID-19 Highest Among Racial Groups

Native Americans experience substantially greater rates of COVID-19 mortality compared with other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new study…

BONUS: What Makes the Senior Thesis So Cool?

The senior thesis requirement is unique to Princeton, providing a memorable opportunity for students to delve into topics of their interest…

Climate Change Creates a “Perfect Storm” for Migration

Climate change and migration are deeply interrelated; extreme climate conditions compound factors like disease, economic insecurity, and violence in…

Haiti

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…

Fletcher M. Burton MPA ’88

Fletcher M. Burton MPA ’88

A few days after Fletcher M. Burton graduated from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service. A…

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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…

Life expectancy

Life Expectancy Falling for Adults Without a Bachelor’s Degree

Life expectancy in the United States dropped in 2020 due to COVID-19, but, for American adults without a college degree, an increase in mortality…

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Diversity in Policing Can Improve Police-Civilian Interactions

The recent killings of Black Americans have reignited calls for policing reform, including proposals to diversify police departments, which have…

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Covid-19 Reduced U.S. life Expectancy, Especially Among Black and Latino Populations

The Covid-19 pandemic, which claimed more than 336,000 lives in the United States in 2020, has significantly affected life expectancy, University of…

Polarization

Polarization Increases with Economic Decline, Becoming Cripplingly Contagious

The rise of populist movements is changing political systems around the world. As support for these “anti-elite” movements intensifies, many are…

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Covid-19 Shutdowns Disproportionately Affected Low-Income Black Households

The alarming rate at which Covid-19 has killed Black Americans has highlighted the deeply embedded racial disparities in the U.S. health care system…

Politics & Polls #183: Economic Inequality and Covid-19 Featuring Sir Angus Deaton

Covid-19 has had a disproportionate impact on at-risk populations, shining the spotlight on economic inequality and instability. Issues such as…

Melissa Lee

WWS Reacts: How Developing Countries Might Grapple with Covid-19

Covid-19 is present in rich and poorer countries alike, but the looming crisis in developing countries — where dense, vulnerable populations make…

Inequality Gap Grew Before the Great Recession and After, Study Finds

The Great Recession hit Americans across the socioeconomic spectrum, with some still working to recover economically. Yet, the drivers behind these…

Project to Collect Real Portraits of American Life

Today, only half of children grow up to earn more than their parents, as opportunities for upward mobility continue to decline. Meanwhile, more than…

Q&A: Information, Democracy, and Autocracy: Transparency and Political (In)Stability

Americans seeking information about unemployment rates, wage growth and inflation can do so with the click of a button. But transparency of this kind…

More Aggressive Climate Policies Are Needed to Save the Future Poor

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to…

Quiet ‘Epidemic’ Has Killed Half a Million Middle-Aged White Americans

Despite advances in health care and quality of life, white middle-aged Americans have seen overall mortality rates increase over the past 15 years,…

WooCast: Behind the Scenes of the Princeton-Fung Global Forum

Resolving epidemics like the Ebola crisis requires a multidisciplinary approach –involving not only public health and medical knowledge but an…

Class Snapshot: “Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education in South Africa”

Class: “Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education in South Africa”Location: Cape Town, South Africa

From Crisis to Progress

Half of the 220,000 people killed in the Syrian civil war have been civilians. Untargeted barrel bombings have crumbled cities and diminished basic…

Hypersegregated Cities Face Tough Road to Change

Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, share more than being the sites of racial strife over the past year. Both are part of metropolitan areas…

Creating a Network of "Builders"

"Making government work."On the surface, the phrase seems simple. For a government to run efficiently, it needs to take the right steps — a strategic…

The senior thesis of Princeton student Hanna Kim examines the civil society response to earthquakes in China and Japan over the last decade. Kim is a major in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs who is interested in pursuing a career in U.S.-East Asia relations.

Breaking Ground in East Asian Earthquake Disaster Relief

In 2008, a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 87,000 people dead or missing, and millions homeless.

Alumna Kate Grant Gives a Voice to the World’s Poorest Women

Fatima went into labor with her first child at the age of 16. As is custom in her nomadic community in western Sudan, she planned to deliver the baby…