Politics

A new report by the nonpartisan California Policy Lab (CPL) shows the estimated effects of several bail policy changes in the City and County of Los Angeles, including removing the emergency bail schedule that was […]

A new study finds that the extent to which U.S. adults support newly appointed justices to the Supreme Court strongly influences the extent to which they support the high court as an institution.This article is […]

This week, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel exporters went to a meeting of island states strongly affected by human-induced climate change.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

The 2026 Census presented a crucial opportunity to count the LGBTQI+ population in Australia for the first time.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

The recent Democratic National Convention in Chicago was a showcase of impressive speeches. Presidential nominee Kamala Harris jupstified the newfound enthusiasm of Democrats with a strong acceptance speech, but even she couldn’t match the oratorical […]

With swing states playing a pivotal role in the 2024 presidential election, new reports from the Center for Inclusive Democracy (CID) at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy have found significant voter turnout […]

A recent study from researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health has found that Florida’s red flag gun law, which was enacted in response to the 2018 Parkland mass shooting, was associated with […]

A new study finds that, counter to expectations, geographic disparities in rates of homicides in the US have decreased in recent decades. Richard Boylan of Rice University in Houston, Texas, US, presents these findings in […]

Despite being highly confident that they can understand the minds of people with opposing viewpoints, the assumptions humans make about others are often wrong, according to new research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & […]

State and federal laws across the United States prohibiting firearm possession in cases of domestic violence often lack enforcement mechanisms, which may lead to continued possession of firearms despite court orders, according to a University […]