politics

A majority both disapproves of him and think’s he’ll win next year. What gives?

New Zealand’s recent budget policy puts the health and well-being of its citizens over economic growth.

When it comes to leadership, we’re quite picky on who we let govern us.

Are we witnessing the end of democracy in America?

We put presidents on our money, but isn’t there more to life than politics?

Despite the negative rhetoric, Europeans are getting more liberal about immigration.

Researchers advance machine learning to create videos of people from single stills and paintings.

A new Gallup polls shows the rising support for socialism in the United States.

Moral grandstanding is a vanity project that sabotages public discourse says moral philosopher Brandon Warmke.

Cook’s commencement speech at Tulane University urges students to take action.

The lost practice of face-to-face communication has made the world a more extreme place.

Yemen leads the list of the most fragile nations, with the U.S. and U.K. among the “most worsened.”

With the seemingly endless growth of the Democratic primary field, we may suffer from choice overload. The result? In fear of making the wrong choice, we may fail to make any — i.e., don’t vote.

Step inside the unlikely friendship of a former ACLU president and an ultra-conservative Supreme Court Justice.

What can and can’t you say? A brief glimpse of precedent-setting free speech cases in the United States.

There’s a reason people are “triggered” during voting time.

Psychologists looked at how liberals and conservatives react after learning about “white privilege”.

Is it the key to understanding why North Korea acts like it does, or an elaborate sham?

Study finds that readers are still the best judge of fake news and misinformation.

It’s no joke.

After a landslide victory, a popular comedian with no political experience becomes Ukraine’s next president. Are comedians really the best leaders?

Opinion is more compelling than fact. That’s tearing society apart.

The recent debate between Slavoj Zizek and Jordan Peterson lived up to the hype.

A scientific look into a ubiquitous phenomenon.

What happens when a small group gets to decide what is appropriate for everyone?

A plan to forgive almost a trillion dollars in debt would solve the student loan debt crisis, but can it work?

Policy advisor Simon Anholt believes the question we should ask is, which country is the “goodest”?