Ariane Lange
Reporter, Social Sciences and Business & Economics
@arianelangeAriane Lange, based in Oakland, California, covers Social Sciences and Business & Economics for The Academic Times. Prior to that, Ariane worked at BuzzFeed News covering gender issues. She is particularly interested in law and structural inequality. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Researchers have missed the bigger picture of ancient agriculture in the Americas, a team of archaeologists argues, and part of the issue can be cleared up by corn.
A troubled health system lets Americans with heart failure fall into financial ruin, according to a new analysis of health spending.
Rapid whole-genome sequencing as a first-line test can save babies' lives and reduce health care costs by thousands of dollars per patient, a paper published Friday says.
Rates of sexually transmitted infections are going to "skyrocket" — a ripple effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and an indictment of the chronic underfunding of public health services, the researcher behind a new study said.
If we want to desegregate American schools, we have to start talking about white people, a legal scholar argues.
Higher minimum wages, more spending on education and higher taxes on the rich have some of the biggest effects on income inequality in the U.S., a state-by-state analysis found.
Chinese people make up a significant percentage of undocumented immigrants, but they're largely ignored and, because of U.S.-China relations, steered toward an expensive, arbitrary asylum process that hinders collective organizing and fuels debt.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers analyzing ancient pots and burnt food found that Siwa culture people ate millet and likely dairy — revealing that a centuries-old Chinese narrative of meat-loving "barbarians" was wrong.