Society & Politics

Research on misinformation and disinformation has become the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s restructuring of federal research priorities.This post was originally published on this site

Thousands of British nationals are charged with drug smuggling abroad every year. The UK charity Prisoners Abroad reports a rise in the number of British people imprisoned abroad for drug offenses in 2024–25, compared to […]

Tough-on-crime rhetoric is reshaping bail laws to correct a perceived imbalance that “tips the scales in favor of the criminals against the victims.”This post was originally published on this site

At the end of a week when President Donald Trump sent Marines and the California National Guard to Los Angeles to quell protests, Americans across the country turned out in huge numbers to protest Trump’s […]

Colorado passed the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Bill in May 2022. The legislation made the possession of small amounts of fentanyl a felony, rather than a misdemeanor.This post was originally published on this site

NPR recently reported that the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Futures Lab is experimenting with tools such as DeepSeek and ChatGPT to explore how artificial intelligence could change—and improve—how foreign policy decisions are made.This […]

Populist parties have long ceased to be a marginal phenomenon. They are now an established political force in many European countries and are fundamentally challenging the democratic system. These parties use harsh rhetoric against the […]

Large cuts to government-funded research and development can endanger American innovation—and the vital productivity gains it supports.This post was originally published on this site

An international research collaboration used AI as research participants and discovered that knowledge-enhanced large language models are able to critically assess forensic expert testimonies.This post was originally published on this site

There was a time when corporate America was not very online. Most companies used social media for promoting products and services or engaging with consumers in a friendly fashion. Political posts on a company Twitter […]