Politics

Hostility to immigrants isn’t new to the United States. In 1896, Henry Cabot Lodge warned on the Senate floor that the “mental and moral qualities” of Americans would be endangered by the “wholesale infusion of […]

Poll after poll shows Americans’ trust in government and one another is historically low. Faith in institutions is abysmal and interpersonal confidence has worsened. Ratings of scientists have now fallen below where they were before […]

Support for abortion rights in the United States increased following the Supreme Court’s June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new report.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Even before the pandemic, access to safe abortion was unequal in South Australia. Now Flinders University researchers warn that delivery of high quality, safe abortion services faces another barrier after the long-awaited new abortion decriminalization […]

The transformation of party politics in Japan has been marked by an array of sensational events, from the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to party fragmentation. Individual legislators switch parties for a number […]

A recent Washington Post article commenting on Marine Le Pen’s candidacy in the recent French Presidential elections stated that: “Populism has a French accent this month,” belying the accepted wisdom that populism has become a […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the blitz”—the idea of a society that pulled together in the second world war to withstand the bombs […]

The majority of Germans feel that their security is threatened by the current political crises. Over 78 percent of respondents to the latest “Politikpanel Deutschland” (Political Panel Germany) survey conducted by the University of Freiburg […]