And other 2018 midterms lessons from an elections expert.

On March 23, 2016, Harris Public Policy Professor Konstantin Sonin, a prominent political scientist and commentator on Russia, examined the Russian ec...

A new method of measuring poverty reveals a surprising truth.

When data reveals what dictators try to hide.

How 'outsider' political candidates can (and do) make it to the top. And why partisanship helps party outsiders succeed.

What does one of the world's great novels have to do with the way inequality works?

Rising global temperatures mean very different things to different populations - even within the United States.

Over the last year, Academic Director of the Center for Municipal Finance and Harris Public Policy Professor Christopher Berry has been helping the Ch...

In 2016, Chicago saw 762 murders. The University of Chicago Crime Lab, led by Harris' own Jens Ludwig, is using hard analysis to figure out what's rea...

In new research, Harris Interim Dean and Professor Kerwin Charles finds that the median African-American male holds the same position relative to the ...