Politics

In an era where demonstrations involving force are growing in number and viewed as a likely source of increased collective violence, the scientific understanding of the correlation between protests and the social media communications of […]

A number of reports have called South Africa a politically polarized society. This may seem uncontroversial, given the country’s history of dispossession and discrimination during colonialism and apartheid, and their continuing legacy after 30 years […]

Imagine spending years hiding who you are to fit into a group, only to become invisible once you leave. This is the reality for many women who serve in the military.This article is brought to […]

In the last weeks of the 2024 United States presidential campaign, the candidates and their supporters made a final plea to voters. Polls revealing a gender gap in support for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump […]

In western Germany, support for xenophobic statements has risen significantly and is now approaching attitudes in the east. In the country’s eastern states, satisfaction with democracy as it is practiced in Germany is at its […]

Dr. Jan Koura, a researcher from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, Prague, reveals the Czechoslovak intelligence operations that shaped political dynamics on the island of Cyprus during the Cold War. This work sheds […]

Anger and resentment have become the accepted currency of populist politicians. Donald Trump is generally the first example that comes to mind, but Europe has its fair share of these leaders too, from Viktor Orban […]

On a college trip to Nigeria, Assoc. Prof. Samuel Fury Childs Daly was struck by just how many people wore uniforms. There were different colors and every pattern of camouflage imaginable; some were conventional military […]

I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So it was more or less mandatory for me to see the new movie […]

Researchers from the Oxford Martin Program on Ethical Web and Data Architectures (University of Oxford) have reported findings from a paper exploring the motivations and challenges in running decentralized social media such as Mastodon, concluding […]