Political

In a polarized nation, how a lot does the media affect folks’s political opinions? A brand new examine co-authored by MIT students finds the reply relies on folks’s media preferences — and, crucially, how these preferences are measured. The researchers mixed a big on-line survey experiment with web-tracking information that recorded all the information websites […] More

The world in recent times has largely been shifting on from debates about the necessity to curb carbon emissions and focusing extra on motion — the event, implementation, and deployment of the technological, financial, and coverage measures to spur the dimensions of reductions wanted by mid-century. That was the message Robert Stoner, the interim director […] More

As the armed battle between Israel and Hamas unfolds, observers and information experiences depict the prospect of a near-term halt in warfare as being unlikely. A panel of specialists at an MIT public occasion on Nov. 1 evaluated the dynamics of the battle, and mentioned the weather that could possibly be crucial for longer-term stability […] More

In 2023, 11 college have been granted tenure within the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Isaiah Andrews PhD ’14 is a professor within the Department of Economics. He is an econometrician who develops dependable and broadly relevant strategies of statistical inference to deal with key challenges in economics, social science, and drugs. […] More

Willard R. Johnson, a professor emeritus within the MIT Department of Political Science who centered his scholarly analysis on the political improvement of Africa, died in late October at age 87. Johnson served as a member of the MIT school for practically 60 years, whereas additionally founding and taking part in quite a few civic […] More

The second annual MIT Prize for Open Data, which included a $2,500 money prize, was lately awarded to 10 particular person and group analysis tasks. Presented collectively by the School of Science and the MIT Libraries, the prize highlights the worth of open knowledge — analysis knowledge that’s overtly accessible and reusable — on the Institute. The […] More

What is the character of the connection between China and Russia as we speak, and the way extensively will the 2 nations hold cooperating sooner or later? It is a number one query of worldwide relations. On Thursday, a public panel dialogue at MIT provided some solutions, with foreign-policy students providing that China and Russia […] More

U.S. politics is closely polarized. This is commonly considered a product of irrationality: People will be tribal, are influenced by their friends, and sometimes get info from very completely different, typically inaccurate sources. Tribalism and misinformation are actual sufficient. But what if persons are typically performing rationally as nicely, even within the technique of arriving […] More

Liberty Ladd has been drawn to public service and combating injustice from a younger age. At 15, as a pupil consultant from the primary congressional district of Maine, she testified to the state board of schooling about unfair grading insurance policies at her college. Later, she determined to hitch the Air Force, with the understanding […] More

State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries By Onathan Fox, Bar-ilan University, and Jori Breslawski, Tel Aviv University Most assume that when governments help a faith, they achieve this within the hope that they are going to improve their legitimacy. However, a rising literature implies that help for faith might lower a […] More

Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data By Michael Gibilisco, California Institute of Technology, and Jessica Steinberg, Indiana University During violent battle, governments might acknowledge their use of illegitimate violence (e.g., noncombatant casualties) regardless that such violence can depress civilian help. Why would they achieve this? We mannequin the strategic incentives affecting […] More

One of essentially the most outstanding walks I’ve ever taken was round Tommy Thomson Park on November sixth, 2021. It was the evening of a brand new moon, and I bought to the park entrance round 10pm. I made a decision to make use of an exhaustive search algorithm to discover the penninsula. I’d start […] More