How shared partisanship leads to social media connections
Twitter experiment shows clear self-selection into social media “echo chambers” due to political preferences.
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Not all banking crises involve panics
Study shows many kinds of finance-sector failures — not just history’s most famous bank runs — lead to economic downturns.
Building equity into vaccine distribution
MIT economist works to show how therapies can be allocated fairly; states are now applying the method in their efforts.
Foreign policy advice: Don’t look back
The Biden administration must navigate a new set of global challenges, experts say in MIT panel discussion.
To combat false news, correct after reading
Study shows people are influenced more by fact-checks after they read news headlines, not before.
What must the US do to sustain its democracy?
MIT scholars discuss what is needed for the country to support its longstanding form of government.
MIT Sloan’s Gary Gensler to be nominated for chair of Securities and Exchange Commission
Prominent finance expert, a veteran of both public service and the private sector, to be nominee for top market-regulation post.
3 Questions: Daron Acemoglu on the “dangerous situation” still facing the U.S.
The author of “The Narrow Corridor,” about the battle to sustain democracy, weighs in on the country’s political condition.
Understanding art in a time of crisis
Associate professor of music Emily Richmond Pollock studies the way modern opera incorporates the new and the traditional.
States of growth: When and where entrepreneurship has thrived
Study shows ambitious U.S. startups are not in decline — but timing and location matter.
Dava Newman named director of MIT Media Lab
Visionary astronautics researcher, explorer, and expert on human adaptation to space will lead the Institute’s world-renowned research center.
A new approach to studying religion and politics
MIT political scientist Richard Nielsen combines ethnography and big data to analyze clerics and preachers in the Islamic world.
Can mammogram screening be more effective?
Study: Healthier women are more likely to follow age-based guidelines, leaving room for better-targeted testing.
A better kind of cybersecurity strategy
New model shows why countries that retaliate too much against online attacks make things worse for themselves.
Straight talk about race in academia
MIT-hosted panel delves into ongoing challenges for Black scholars — and ways for everyone in university settings to start making a difference.