Society & Politics

On March 25, 2025, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University, Rümeysa Öztürk, was walking in a Boston suburb when she was detained by plain-clothed federal agents. A video of the encounter went viral, sparking fear and outrage in the United States and beyond.... Read more

A new report from the University of East Anglia has raised concerns about the state of democracy around the world during 2024's "Super Cycle" of elections.... Read more

Something dangerous is happening to the U.S. economy, and it's not inflation or trade wars. Chaotic deregulation and the selective enforcement of laws have upended markets and investor confidence. At one point, the threat of tariffs and resulting chaos evaporated US$4 trillion in value in the U.S. stock market. This... Read more

A new study from King's Business School and the University of Edinburgh has found that aligning corporate identity with political ideology can help businesses resonate with certain stakeholders—but may also restrict strategic flexibility and create internal tensions.... Read more

In the wake of the largest series of U.S. tariff hikes since 1930, a new study from Michigan State University explores how this economic shock is reshaping global supply chains and offers a framework to help researchers and policymakers make sense of the chaos. The study was recently published in... Read more

Americans disapprove of the Trump administration's policies targeting science and medicine by a margin of more than 2 to 1, according to a survey by Rutgers and other universities.... Read more

New research, which has reviewed major U.K. political parties' past manifestos, finds they all lack the boldness needed to tackle the structural roots of inequality and significantly raise people out of poverty.... Read more

Every year thousands of people globally are wrongly accused of witchcraft, often with fatal consequences yet, says new research, legislation designed to stamp out the barbaric practices is rarely used.... Read more

American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking.... Read more

For years now, U.S. police departments have employed officers who are trained to be experts in detecting "drugged driving." The problem is, however, that the methods those officers use are not based on science, according to a new editorial in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (JSAD).... Read more

Green transport initiatives such as bicycle lanes or creating spaces for electric vehicle charging points have become heated political battlegrounds in the United Kingdom, and British people respond to such proposals broadly in line with their political party preference and political orientation, new research from the University of Bath shows.... Read more

It's well known that governing parties often lose voters over time—the so-called cost of governing. But a new study from Frederik Hjorth, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, documents a lesser-known but potentially crucial side effect of being in government: politicians begin to speak less simply... Read more

New Jerseyans continue to give a somewhat split assessment on the direction of the Garden State, and pocketbook issues top the list of residents' biggest concerns, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll.... Read more

The number of state laws preempting local policies governing transgender rights in the United States has been steadily increasing since 2019, according to newly updated research by the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University School of Law.... Read more

A new study by Dr. Heylel-li Biton of the Hebrew University Business School sheds light on a long-standing question in global finance: Why do foreign firms listed in the United States choose one accounting regime over another?... Read more