POPE Leo XIV’s remarks to members of the board of the Vatican Observatory Foundation last May 11 addressed a growing concern shared by scientists, technologists and philosophers alike: modern ...

A new Washington University in St. Louis' study takes on the Herculean task of studying the linguistic choices of more than 800 political parties from 87 democracies around the world, including the ...

Intelligence agencies often complain that they are judged unfairly because you hear about their failures, not their successes.

New faultlines have emerged in the Dravidian model in Tamil Nadu where the slogan of success does not resonate with the youth ...

Politicians have reduced public funding for science and dismantled scientific institutions for ideological reasons in Argentina and the United States; how should the scientific community respond to ...

President Donald Trump’s tumbling approval ratings are raising the odds that the 2026 midterm elections will extend one of ...

The global hierarchy of innovation is undergoing a structural shift that Washington is dangerously slow to acknowledge. For ...

Republican commentators have argued, incorrectly, that political violence is largely a left-wing problem. Liberals have countered by citing the threats made against former President Obama.

An extraordinary rupture in the governance of American science is prompting warnings that the Trump administration has moved beyond challenging scientific priorities and into dism ...

A conversation with Sean Westwood, a professor at Dartmouth who tracks political violence and Americans’ perceptions of it. By Sabrina Tavernise A question that seems to be on everyone’s mind after ...