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Are Macron and Le Pen re-enacting a centuries-old conflict?
Artists and fans are the big losers as bot-powered scalpers make a killing.
In a historic upset, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young democratic socialist of Latina descent, has defeated political veteran Joe Crowley in their party’s congressional primary in New York City.
A string of terror attacks across the globe have shaken the world’s most powerful nations to their core. As a result of these tragic events, and the fear-mongering from politicians […]
DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.
A previously unknown species – single people – has recently been discovered.
As the saying goes: “A Ronny alone is in bad company”
There is no one answer. But there are 10.
A new study of 155 regions found that the more women are represented in local and national governments, the less corruption there is.
American food banks are rejecting junk food for healthier fare, and so food corporations are hedging their bets elsewhere.
Revolutionaries don’t retire. Passion, not age, predict the will to make positive change happen. July 4 celebrates the Declaration of Independence but it also shows that birthdays are no indicator of who can make a difference.
A new game called Factitious aims to help people determine real from fake news online. Will this work? Exploring ways to be more media literate.
Past research on ‘disgust sensitivity’ show it’s linked to political orientation, but the new study is the first to explore exactly how it’s linked to voting behavior.
Free market ideology uses democratic vocabulary as propaganda, obscuring a non-democratic reality.
It seems difficult to explain why evangelical Christians swung their vote toward Donald J. Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election.
Magical thinking has always run deep in America, but in the last 30 years things have begun to escalate. “Nutty fringe ideas” are making their way into the mainstream.
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KGB-era “active measures” are still being used by Russian intelligence agencies today, according to experts.
A series of spelling errors has educated Trump opponents laughing.
Talking about politics in the office is stressing people out and hurting their productivity. Many discussions are erupting into full-blown arguments, and millennials are particularly likely to witness political escalations in the workplace.
Do you want your voice heard? Facebook recently unveiled a tool called Town Hall which makes it incredibly easy to contact your elected officials. By removing the friction of contacting politicians, Facebook may be creating a “social infrastructure” that increases civic engagement.
The polls are in, and what will be the deciding factor in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election is something a little more human.
The winning side in the U.S. presidential election rules a vast, contiguous land mass, the losers are cooped up on a far-flung archipelago
“The most important, obvious realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see.”
Can we make progress in a world in which we don’t trust our institutions?
Malcolm Gladwell does a post-mortem of the U.S. presidential election, speaking to issues of sexism and moral licensing, and makes a bold prediction.
Crazy Rich Asians is the first film to feature an all-Asian cast in 25 years. It is also a bonafide success, both financially and culturally. Inspired by its fanfare, Big Think looks at seven other films that shook American society.
French president Emmanuel Macron recently announced plans to close all of the country’s coal-fired power plants two years ahead of schedule.
How can we chart moral progress? One popular narrative holds that it increases steadily, rising over time. But Jelani Cobb argues it happens in fits and starts, like an EKG line that spikes and falls.
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Caught between a rock and a hard place, the EU had better get ready for some of these exit-names