DEPENDING ON where exactly you find yourself, western Pennsylvania can feel Appalachian, Midwestern, booming or downtrodden. No matter where, however, this part of the state feels like the centre of ...

Politicians and policy experts like to talk about the “root causes” of crime, homelessness, poverty, rising prices and other problems. If they want to understand the root cause of political ...

OVER THE weekend wonks flocked to Seattle for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. Among other things, they discussed how political divisions hamper the fight against ...

City St George's, University of London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. It is hard nowadays to find topics on which people agree. Ironically, though, all agree on one ...

Democratic backsliding — understood as the decline of democratic norms, institutions, and processes — is a well-documented development that has concerned most world regions, and Indonesia offers an ...

Alex Hubbard is formerly affiliated with the Labour Party, and Aber Food Surplus, a community hub. People are becoming more divided and ill informed. In January 2024, a report by the World Economic ...

Bielefeld University is establishing a new extracurricular learning space with the teutolab for social sciences. Combining ...

In the six years since, a series of incidents in the national capital have intensified this schism while Umar Khalid and ...