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Earth keeps getting hotter, and Americans’ partisan divide over science grows sharper

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As global officials confirm that 2025 was Earth’s third-hottest year on record, a new poll shows Americans are sharply divided over the role of science in the United States.This post was originally published on this […]

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Governments are rushing to embrace AI: Should they think twice?

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Governments across the world want AI to do more of the heavy lifting when it comes to public services. The plan is apparently to make things much more efficient, as algorithms quietly handle a country’s […]

Society & Politics

Can a hashtag help prevent atrocities? Study shows social media can be a powerful tool

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Social media is often criticized for fueling misinformation and violence, but it could actually play a role in preventing genocide and mass atrocities—if used strategically.This post was originally published on this site

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Study shows how kidnapping of athlete’s father influenced society, president across continents

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Sports are often viewed as an escape from the problems of the real world. But when a Colombian soccer star’s father was kidnapped, the resulting media coverage helped move the story from the field of […]

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Whether or not US acquires Greenland, the island will be at the center of a massive military build-up in the Arctic

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Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against Islamic State groups, the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás […]

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The US military has a long history in Greenland, from WWII mining to a nuclear-powered Army base built into ice

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President Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland “whether they like it or not” is just the latest chapter in a co-dependent and often complicated relationship between America and the Arctic’s largest island—one […]

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EU’s impending accession to rights convention resembles a 3D puzzle, says research

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The detail of the European Union’s long-awaited accession to the European Convention on Human Rights is like a “three-dimensional puzzle” because of the several vital and interlocking elements which need to be agreed, a new […]

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Western populations endorse support for Ukraine despite nuclear escalation fears, finds study

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Most people in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy clearly endorse military support for Ukraine. They overwhelmingly reject Russia’s positions on territorial claims and restrictions on Ukraine’s political sovereignty.This post was originally […]

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The academic study of politics is failing disabled people, with real-world consequences

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Diversity among students and researchers is a common goal across academia. This has been driven by a desire to increase opportunities for the historically marginalized in higher education—moving away from the straight, white and male […]

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Deforestation and economic traps created by flue-cured tobacco in Zimbabwe revealed

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A new study into one of the world’s most popular tobacco leaf production processes has revealed its particularly damaging harms to the environment and how it impacts farmers’ lives in Zimbabwe.This post was originally published […]

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Top Stories

  • Financial complaint delays hit seniors and veterans hardest, with gaps widening over time

    When a bank wrongly charges fees, a debt collector harasses someone over a disputed bill, or a mortgage servicer fails to apply payments correctly, Americans have a formal recourse: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Filing [...]
  • Elite MBAs still influence who reaches the top of corporate America, study shows

    New research from the University of Bath shows that graduates of elite MBA programs, particularly the so-called M7 super elite US schools, are significantly more likely to become top management team members and CEOs than [...]
  • Employment data shows the early signs of AI job disruption are already here

    There has been no shortage of bold claims recently about artificial intelligence (AI) and jobs—from mass unemployment to over-hyped distraction. Much of this debate is speculative. Often, coming from the tech giants promoting their own [...]

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