States are still trying to ban trans youths from sports. Here’s what you need to know. Elizabeth Sharrow, Jaime Schultz, Lindsay Parks Pieper, Anna Baeth, and Danne Diamond - April 10, 2024 State legislators have proposed dozens of bills targeting trans children. What’s at stake?
Nearly all NFL head coaches are White. What are the odds? Bethany Lacina - February 7, 2022 It’s either a 100 to 1 chance — or there’s a pro-White bias in hiring, my research finds.
What happens when colleges welcome people to campus and someone becomes ill? William Blake and Susan M. Sterett - July 17, 2020 For U.S. universities, legal liability is just one of many uncertainties
China and the U.S. blame each other for the coronavirus. But both countries made similar mistakes. Rui Zhong - March 17, 2020 Communication lags may prove costly.
California’s ‘Fair Pay to Play’ law for college athletes has other states racing to join up. Here’s why. Roshaun Colvin and Joshua Jansa - November 18, 2019 Even the NCAA is changing its rules on athlete pay.
Should college athletes profit from endorsements? White Americans are split by racial attitudes. Tatishe M. Nteta, Lauren McCarthy, and Kevin Wallsten - October 24, 2019 This new study shows a stark divide.
We gathered data on every confirmed, line-of-duty police killing of a civilian in 2014 and 2015. Here’s what we found. Logan Strother, Geiguen Shin, and Charles Menifield - August 29, 2018 [caption id="attachment_77172" align="aligncenter" width="960"] In June, demonstrators protest the fatal
Whites oppose — and blacks support — paying NCAA athletes, especially when they’re thinking about race Tatishe M. Nteta, Lauren McCarthy, and Kevin Wallsten - May 14, 2018 Last Monday, Kylia Carter, the mother of former Duke basketball
In North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory’s reelection prospects are fading fast John Sides - September 22, 2016 [caption id="attachment_46672" align="aligncenter" width="960"] North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory speaks
Racial prejudice is driving opposition to paying college athletes. Here’s the evidence. Tatishe M. Nteta, Lauren McCarthy, and Kevin Wallsten - December 30, 2015 [caption id="attachment_34024" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Clemson Tigers quarterback Deshaun Watson (4)
Puzzles of criminal justice Andrew Gelman - December 13, 2012 Four recent news stories about crime and punishment made me
Football and the Greek Election Erik Voeten - June 18, 2012 There has been broad speculation on if and how Greece's
Mascotology, Not Bracketology John Sides - March 14, 2012 This is a guest post from political scientist and mascotologist
USA! USA! Title IX! Title IX!: Culture vs. Institutions in Women’s Soccer Joshua Tucker - July 11, 2011 Continuing on with my "sports theme from yesterday":http://tmc.org/blog/2011/07/10/derek-jeter-christian-lopez-and-rational-choices/, I share
How Political Science Can Help Journalists (and Still Let Them Be Journalists) John Sides - May 27, 2011 This is a long post, and I realize that I've
NCAA Tourney Pools are *not* Game Theoretic, Right? Joshua Tucker - March 18, 2011 I remember when I was in graduate school one of
Football and Social Science Joshua Tucker - September 15, 2009 With football season officially upon us (much to the dismay
Politics Everywhere: The one-and-done - June 24, 2009 A few years ago, the National Basketball Association instituted a
Correlation That Isn’t Causation John Sides - April 17, 2009 bq. The research -- by Matthew A. Holsapple of the
The Politics of the Presidential Brackets - March 19, 2009 By now anybody who pays attenton to such things knows
Wait! Wait! Don’t Enter Your Office Pool ‘Til You’ve Read This… - March 18, 2009 Help is on the way from, of all places, the
If the NCAA Tournament Were Based on Academics John Sides - March 16, 2009 Above is a bracket where victories are awarded to the
Madness, March and Otherwise - March 12, 2009 The seedings for this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament will
The Dismal Economics of Big-Time College Sports - May 21, 2008 Every year the NCAA publishes a financial analysis of intercollegiate
Ticket-scalping, or is it gambling? Nope, it’s free enterprise, NCAA-style - March 20, 2008 Thinking about attending the NCAA Final Four this year, but