Peter Dizikes

The awards honor work on gene regulation and the relationship between political systems and economic growth.

A new study maps where the US employment market will change most during the move to clean energy.

Difficulty with complex sentence processing could be a clue that someone may develop Alzheimer’s.

Media might deepen partisan divides, but we should measure reading habits more carefully before drawing conclusions—and avoid assuming that our own thought processes are the only rational ones.

The Chinese government has enhanced its power—and the country’s tech sector—by using AI-based facial recognition to help stifle dissent.

As the Institute formally celebrated her arrival, President Kornbluth celebrated curiosity and called for “Rad Lab–level thinking and commitment” to address the climate crisis.

Research using a Boston admissions lottery adds evidence that early education has long-term benefits.

Amy Finkelstein examines the core issue in the industry: Who gets to be a customer?

Blame self-checkouts, assembly-line robots, and similar technology for most of the growth in the wage gap since 1980.

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design will create a hub for design education, research, and entrepreneurship on campus. The interdisciplinary careers of its faculty directors, John Ochsendorf and Maria Yang ’91, offer a glimpse of the possibilities in store.

As he steps down, President L. Rafael Reif opens up about the experiences and ideals that shaped his tenure at the helm of the Institute.

The Institute will back more research in Native American studies and support community efforts on campus, among other measures.

Minimum-wage increases lead to higher election participation.

A new report finds that material needs are the main motive for immigration from Central America to the US.

MIT labor economist Joshua Angrist was honored for his work on “natural experiments” that make the field more empirically rigorous.

Amy Finkelstein has changed what we know about Medicaid, Medicare, the economics of health care—and, increasingly, medical care itself.

Sure, he won a Nobel for his research on technology, productivity, and growth. But his legacy as a mentor is equally remarkable.

At MIT, scholars are taking a rational look at increasingly irrational political discourse.

On Twitter, falsehoods spread more quickly than the truth.

MIT economist David Autor has helped reshape thinking about free trade and job losses.