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.
European colonizers caused the extinction of 50% to 70% of snakes and lizards in Guadeloupe, a new finding that illustrates the devastating impact of colonialism on life.
Ancient people who lived the mesas and canyons of what is now called Bears Ears, Utah, are still influencing the plant life in the area today — evidence that Indigenous ecological knowledge is essential to the future, the authors of a new study argue.
Clinical practice guidelines are meant to streamline medical care, but many contain recommendations based on race that give white patients special treatment and require Black patients to get sicker before a doctor will help them, a new paper says.
Gentrification is "still somewhat of a mystery," the economist behind a new paper says, but it's partly driven by the increasingly long hours of higher-income workers who move to city centers to cut commutes and subsequently demand less crime and more restaurants.
Policy changes in the U.K. have left the lowest-income people more likely to fall into deep poverty, even as the proportion of people considered "below the poverty line" has stagnated and thus masked increased suffering.
Women get dinged for their ambition and subtly encouraged to be more "feminine" even when they're still low-ranking at work, while men get much more upset when they're criticized, a new study of workplace dynamics found.