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The University of Chicago Crime Lab teams up with the Center on Crime and Community Resilience at the Northeastern University in a PayPal funded study on payment methods used to traffic illegal firearms in the United States.

The Democratic presidential race started with lower than expected turnout at the Iowa Caucuses. Howell addresses their lingering anxieties.

University of Chicago’s Poverty Lab and UCLA researchers have devised a digital tool to predict homelessness to be used in California, the state with the largest unsheltered population.

The impeachment and the acquittal of President Trump has a lot in-store for the America’s political future. Professor Howell discusses the pertinent after effects.

Changing the energy use patterns amongst people has been an uphill task. Multidisciplinary research by Assistant Professor Kimberly Wolske and co-authors suggests a way out using peer effects.

As the Democratic Party prepares for the last leg of the democratic primaries, Associate Professor Anthony Fowler argues ideology would play a vital role in the outcomes