Politics

People’s first instinct when engaging with conspiracy believers is often to try and debunk their ideas with factual and authoritative information.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

China’s National Bureau of Statistics has confirmed what researchers such as myself have long suspected—that 2022 was the year China’s population turned down, the first time that has happened since the great famine brought on […]

According to a new analysis, the total number of people employed full-time by the U.S. federal government remained largely unchanged by the end of the Trump administration, but with significant variation in growth, downsizing, and […]

Nominating and electing more female politicians can help to diffuse polarization and reduce levels of hostility and distrust across party lines, a study shows.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Inflation, followed by poverty and social inequality are the most pressing issues worrying people around the world right now. Canada has not been immune from the rising cost of living and is still fighting an […]

New research from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program finds racial and ethnic differences in how extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) are perceived and used in California. The study, published in Preventive Medicine, found […]

The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School has released a new report finding that Harris County, Texas’s targeted misdemeanor bail reforms are improving public safety […]

In the 1990s, changes in violent crime rates, social and political unrest directed at law enforcement, and technological innovations set the stage for major changes in administering criminal justice. Several innovative approaches to policing were […]

A ‘network state’ is ideologically aligned but geographically decentralized. The people are spread around the world in clusters of varying size, but their hearts are in one place.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

A new study suggests that when deciding whether to believe in a conspiracy theory or not, the brain weighs up information from our own direct experience, what the media tells us, the expected cost or […]