Political Science

Internal displacement in Syria was used by the Assad regime to reshape the country’s political and social landscape, a new study shows.This article is brought to you by this site.

Three in 10 Generation Z (Gen-Z) Australians who did not register for the 2022 federal election said they either did not know they had to register to vote or did not know how to.This article […]

Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure planning to disease epidemiology and disaster risk management. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Aalto University in […]

From a very young age, we’re socialized to view the world as being made up of “goodies” and “baddies.” When you’re a child fooling around with your friends in the playground, nobody ever wants to […]

A state law signed Feb. 28, 2025, removes gender identity as a protected status from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, leaving transgender people vulnerable to discrimination. The rights of transgender people—those who present gender characteristics […]

“I Voted” stickers are a ubiquitous sight on American election days, a way for voters to promote civic participation in a country where more people didn’t vote in the most recent presidential election than voted […]

The benefits of democratic societies go beyond greater personal freedoms and liberties. A new study by a UC Riverside economics professor published in Economics & Politics has found that democratic systems of government also lead […]

Abortion is murder—the emotive rallying cry popular with pro-life campaigners keen to convert others to their cause. But what if opposition to abortion isn’t all about sanctity-of-life concerns, and instead at least partly about discouraging […]

People think that Harry Potter, Spiderman and Gandalf would vote the same way they do, whereas Darth Vader, Cruella de Vil and Joffrey Baratheon would vote for the rival party.This article is brought to you […]