Politics

With three mass shooting within a week leaving 24 Californians dead, public policy makers are searching for answers.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

“As people age, they become more conservative” is a well worn political aphorism. It is cited frequently in discussions and research about generational politics. It’s been deployed in various ways in the popular discourse—a way […]

Female circumcision is so harmful that it is quite clear that society would be better off without this kind of practice, but so far progress has been slow.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

A machine-learning analysis has revealed patterns in online hate speech that suggest complex—and sometimes counterintuitive—links between real-world events and different types of hate speech. Yonatan Lupu of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and colleagues […]

Immigration is one of the most controversial social and political issues in American life. Yet little attention is given to the aftermath of U.S. immigration policies or the immigrant Americans who are deported back to […]

In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter highlighted malicious purposes and secretive actions of supposed bad actors behind the crisis, according to an analysis of nearly 400,000 posts.This article […]

As millennial and post-millennial voters become the largest group of voters around the world, Flinders University experts warn that the ‘grandfather effect’ has seen people from previous generations retain or elected to officeat an advanced […]

Mandatory voting laws are known to increase voter turnout, but how significant are their effects?This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

As police departments and activists look for strategies to reduce excessive use of force by police, new research from the University of Michigan shows limited data, lack of transparency and irregular implementation of reforms make […]

The start of a new year these days signals the launch of Veganuary, a campaign which encourages people to give up animal products for the month of January.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.