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What Feinstein’s trailblazing career taught us

Nadia E. Brown - October 2, 2023

She changed politics – and political science.

We couldn’t find religious bias in news coverage of the Supreme Court

Mark Brockway and Hailey Womer - May 26, 2022

We analyzed news coverage of Amy Coney Barrett’s religion during her confirmation hearings

Republican senators used racially coded language to question Ketanji Brown Jackson. There’s history to that.

Sharon Wright Austin - March 28, 2022

Compare that to the language senators used to grill Constance Baker Motley in 1966, slowing down her confirmation as the first Black female federal judge.

Why did Sen. Graham grill Ketanji Brown Jackson about her religious faith?

Matthew Dahl - March 24, 2022

Research suggests that religion doesn’t influence judges’ decisions.

Why aren’t there more Black female judges on the federal bench?

Gbemende Johnson - February 22, 2022

Biden has nominated more than ever — but Black women face many obstacles in legal careers

Chicago cop Jon Burge allegedly tortured suspects. Why couldn’t the U.S. prosecute him?

Mark Berlin - February 16, 2022

The Chicago Police Department apologized for what it called ‘torture.’ But while the United States is a party to international human rights treaties, it doesn’t have laws at home against these violations.

Justice Breyer announced he will retire. Here’s what happens next.

Paul Collins and Lori Ringhand - January 27, 2022

If Biden fulfills his promise to appoint a Black woman, he’ll make the Supreme Court more representative of the U.S. population

South Dakota’s wealth is in finance. South Dakotans still think it’s in farming.

Filip Viskupič and David Wiltse - October 14, 2021

More people may work in agriculture — but the Pandora Papers revealed that the state has become an international financial haven

Twitter put warning labels on hundreds of thousands of tweets. Our research examined which worked best.

Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Jonathan Nagler, Richard Bonneau, and Joshua A. Tucker - December 8, 2020

Without a hard block, tweets continue to spread — especially tweets by President Trump

When Twitter fact-checks Trump’s tweets, it polarizes Americans even more, our research finds

Sarah Kreps, Douglas Kriner, and Dino Christenson - November 24, 2020

Fact-checking this president backfires.