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Are we in danger of over-romanticising the military?

“Support the troops” has become a potent rallying cry in the US and UK, but has the concept made it harder to explore the legitimacy of the wars the troops are fighting in? A new book by Katharine Millar explores how this social phenomenon has evolved in the UK and US over the decades, and what it says about modern concepts of citizenship, conflict and war.

How the US can learn from Europe and beyond to improve its support for single-parent families

In the United States, single-parent families are much more likely to be poor compared to families with two parents, with one in three single-mother families living in poverty. Amanda Sheely, Janet C Gornick and Laurie C Maldonado have been looking to other high-income countries to find what policy lessons the US can learn and implement to better support single-parent families.

RESEARCH FOR THE WORLDThe social science magazine by LSE

Are we in danger of over-romanticising the military?

What gets in the way of our green intentions? Meat as a case study

How the US can learn from Europe and beyond to improve its support for single-parent families