Brett Clark’s new research links military spending and carbon emissions and was published recently in PLOS Climate. Brett and his colleagues analyzed US military expenditures and documented a strong relationship with energy use. Their paper argues the Dept of Defense can substantially reduce its carbon emissions by reducing spending.
Akiko Kamimura's purpose for this study was to identify how AI/AN undergraduate students’ self-efficacy and science identity changed from participating in the 2022 Native American Summer Research Internship (NARI).
Plumbing poverty remains an issue in parts of the United States, including the US–Mexico borderlands. Ricardo Rubio*, Sara E Grineski, Timothy W Collins, Daniel E Adkins, Yolanda J. McDonald. (2025).
Marcel Paret's paper examines movement politics. In this paper movement politics takes the form of a triangular relationship among three sets of actors: the international Communist movement, Black movements, and national Communist parties.
Scholars debate whether populism represents a potential corrective or an existential threat to democracy. Populism may enhance democracy by giving voice to previously neglected or marginalized groups (Bonikowski et al. 2019; Juon and Bochsler 2020; Mouffe 2005; Roberts 2012; Rovira Kaltwasser 2012). Others worry that populism undermines minority protections, government constraints, and the rule of law (Kenny 2020; Kriesi 2014; Müller 2016; Pappas 2015; Taggart 2000; Urbinati 2019). We develop general propositions that consider both possibilities.