Five women confront homelessness, immigration and gun violence while working to protect and support vulnerable communities.

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Corporations, billionaires and celebrities are all shrill champions of social justice causes — so why haven’t the problems been solved? That’s the central question that sociologist Musa Al-Gharbi aims ...

Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing means of navigating them. Then social problems ...

Dr. Kevin M. Passino was my doctoral research adviser at the Ohio State University, where I did my PhD. As a control systems researcher, I have long felt that control systems – and systems science in ...

From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, AI has already significantly impacted our daily lives. Perhaps AI’s biggest potential lies in its ability to tackle some of the world’s most pressing ...

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. College students in ...

September in Washington means lawmakers scrambling to keep the government’s doors open. On-time funding has become a pathological exercise in procrastination. This annual show of Congressional ...