7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (885+ words) The cost of living crisis undermines the right to participate in cultural life. Australia’s federal cultural policy, Revive, acknowledges and even celebrates the entitlement of all Australians to have access to culture (a liberty […] enshrined in Article 27 of the Universal…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (656+ words) Terrorist attacks are more common during security and economic crises, but they decrease during humanitarian disasters. That’s the main finding of our in-depth analysis of global data from 1980 to 2014. Looking at incidents of terrorist attacks during that time period across…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (827+ words) Some local election officials have refused to certify election results in the past few years. Georgia has new administrative rules that invite election officials to investigate results before certifying. And worries abound that election officials might subvert the results of…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (757+ words) Though crime and criminal justice policy are central issues in many elections, that’s not true in 2024. Surveys show that relatively few American voters rank crime as their most important concern. Yet both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (808+ words) Nearly 16% of people changed their sexual identity over a 12-year period, according to a new study I conducted with my colleagues, involving around 35,000 residents of Stockholm County. This challenges long-held beliefs about sexual identity being largely fixed. Between 2010 and 2021, we…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1035+ words) Citizens’ trust in their political institutions has been falling around the world. This may not come as a shock to many. British politics has been in chaos since the Brexit referendum in 2016. Rioters stormed the US Capitol in protest against…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (635+ words) Quotas designed to bring gender parity to parliaments have an overall positive impact on support for female political leadership – especially after women members of parliament take office. Furthermore, there is no evidence of a backlash among men. That’s what I…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1100+ words) Ten years ago, I had the honour of meeting Gloria Steinem. It was International Women’s Day 2016: Donald Trump was a joke that would supposedly never happen and #MeToo was still two years away. Yet, the clouds were gathering. Being in…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1062+ words) A Home Depot store violated labor law when it disciplined Antonio Morales, the National Labor Relations Board ruled on Feb. 21, 2024. Morales, a Home Depot employee in the Minneapolis area, had drawn the letters BLM on a work apron and refused…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (821+ words) There’s no question that British politics is becoming more diverse. From only four minority ethnic MPs elected in 1987, now 67 MPs are from a minority ethnic background. People often assume that if a person in power is an ethnic minority, they…...