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An archaeologist talks trash

This story was originally published by UChicago News. Read the article on their site here.  Author, UChicago Asst. Prof. Sarah Newman reframes hist...

In the News Faculty Political Science

NYT - Analyze This: Donald Trump’s Thoughts and Speech; In a Letter to the Editor, Prof. John Mark Hansen said the question in the Trump indictment is "whether he was able to distinguish right actions from wrong ones"

In the News Faculty Economics

New York Post - 5 lies Biden is telling you today about the economy; Article cites study by Prof. Casey Mulligan on U.S. oil production rates

In the News Faculty Political Science

CBS News - Political violence risk reignited as Trump faces indictments; Video: On "America Decides," Prof. Robert Pape discusses how officials are responding to and preparing for the threat of violence following Donald Trump's most recent indictment

In the News Faculty Political Science

The New York Review - History’s Presence; Prof. Adom Getachew gives an interview on her intellectual preoccupations, decolonization today, and the crises of history

In the News Faculty Economics

WSJ - Regulators Gone Wild; Op-ed cites an analysis by Prof. Casey Mulligan finding that regulatory costs per household under the Biden administration amount to $5,019

In the News Faculty Economics

Fortune - The Chicago school economist who warned years ago of America’s ‘business dynamism’ fading still sees ‘something broken in the background’; Prof. Ufuk Akcigit discusses the findings from 2019 paper

In the News Faculty Political Science

NYT - For Ukraine, Many Antiwar Activists in the U.S. Make an Exception; Article mentions Prof. John J. Mearsheimer's 2015 lecture titled “Why Ukraine is the West’s fault”

In the News Faculty Political Science

CBS News - University of Chicago's Robert Pape says political violence "moving into the mainstream"

Economics

HECKMAN: INVESTMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS YIELDS ROBUST RETURNS (2016)

PUBLISHED ON DEC 13, 2016 High-quality early childhood development programs can deliver an annual return of 13 percent per child - "comparable to r...