Governments have to do more to reduce income inequality, says UC Berkeley's Robert Reich.

Why did the city-state model give way to the nation-state—and what does Boston have to do it?

Through overcrowding, lockdowns, and medical neglect, the conditions in U.S. prisons have become unconstitutional, according to UC Berkeley legal scholar Jonathan Simon.

New research on why state-building interventions succeed in some nations and not others.

A groundbreaking long-term study by UC Berkeley researchers shows that playing with children has a profound impact on their future incomes.

Minimum wage increases in cities have significant benefits and fewer costs than expected, according to a team of UC Berkeley economists.

A new Social Science Matrix seminar is focused on finding radical new approaches to clinical health care.

An interview with a UC Berkeley graduate student who is studying how politics shaped the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

How do you ask people in gang-ruled neighborhood whether they trust the police? A team of researchers are using a Matrix seminar to explore the most effective approaches for measuring communities' attitudes toward law enforcement.