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Published on June 6, 2026 9:33 PM GMT Five years ago I read a post on the EA Forum arguing that "election campaign contributions might be a way in which you can have a substantial impact as a small donor". It struck me as weird but plausible: a combination that you see a lot of on the Forum. A few months later I read another post, a case for Carrick Flynn in particular. It made a lot of sense, bu…

A popular theory suggests voters reject opposing facts to avoid the emotional pain of being wrong. New research tested this idea and found that managing our feelings does not actually close the partisan divide over basic reality.

Ukrainian leader will attend UK meeting along with French president and German chancellor Keir Starmer will host Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz for talks in Downing Street on Sunday to discuss support for Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader will visit the UK with the French president and German chancellor after a week of heightened hostilities and Vladimir Putin’s rejection of …

As detainees go on hunger strike over conditions at Delaney Hall, relatives describe concern for loved ones’ wellbeing In mid-May, Elder Guerra was showering inside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility when he slipped and fell. Guerra, a Guatemalan immigrant, has been locked up in the New Jersey jail for nearly five months. He was arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

Technology secretary Liz Kendall says she is ‘very concerned’ about role of social media but will not be ‘bullied off’ X The government is considering fresh action to halt the spread of misinformation during public crises, Liz Kendall has said, insisting she will not be “bullied off” Elon Musk’s X. The technology secretary was speaking after rioting broke out in Southampton over the police respon…

You may have heard men on social media complaining about women using the "6-6-6 dating rule," Has dating really become such a numbers game? And if so, what should you do about it?

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A recent nationwide survey suggests that adults who strongly approve of the National Rifle Association are more likely to justify and express a willingness to participate in politically motivated violence.

Mikko Myrskylä, director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), received the 2026 Dirk J. Van de Kaa Award for Population Studies at the European Population Conference 2026 (EPC2026) closing ceremony in Bologna. Presented by the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), the award honors outstanding scientific achievements in population studies.

Pull up the most recent data on how Americans rate their own lives, and a strange thing happens to the political map. The reds and the blues, the coasts and the heartland, the places that cannot agree on anything: line up their life satisfaction, their depression rates, their trust in the people next door, and the differences start to blur. Nearly everyone is doing worse. And nearly everyone is d…

Congressional Democrats say GOP majority is unraveling, but moves may in fact be aimed at retaining power The wrath of Donald Trump has kept congressional Republicans in line for much of his second term thus far. But as the November midterm elections draw closer, the president’s allies in the Senate and House of Representatives appear increasingly willing to defy a president who appears to have a…

TL;DR — A real wedding asked guests for charity donations instead of gifts. That single-couple prototype became Love That Gives Back : a multi-tenant platform where anyone can spin up a registry for any celebration, guests donate to verified charities through Stripe, leave a moderated public message, and every euro is tracked on an append-only ledger. The original wedding is the live flagship cam…

A new study suggests that experiencing a mental illness is becoming a distinct political identity, particularly among Gen Z. Those who strongly identify with their mental health conditions are increasingly demanding expanded healthcare, education, and welfare funding.

Online prediction markets are taking bets on everything from climate change to quantum computing. But researchers question their accuracy

The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank and injured one of the child’s parents after opening fire on the family’s car, despite it having complied with an order to stop. Soldiers opened fire on Friday on a car carrying the infant and his parents in t…

Cambridge OCR A-level Sociology Paper 3 is Debates in Contemporary Society. Section A focuses on Globalisation and the Digital Social World, while Section B requires students to choose one option: Crime and Deviance, Education, or Religion, Belief and Faith. The Crime and Deviance option focuses on how crime and deviance are socially constructed, measured, socially […]

Total number charged rises to 11 after protests that broke out following sentencing of man for murder of 18-year-old Six more people have been charged with violent disorder in Southampton after riots broke out following the sentencing of a man for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. It brings the total number of people charged after disorder in the city to 11. Kevin Reeves, 31, of Portswood Ro…

The architect of the African Union’s reparations framework for the historic UN resolution explains why demands for historical justice are inseparable from the struggle for Black sovereignty Last month, at commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of France’s Taubira law recognising the trafficking of enslaved Africans as a crime against humanity, Emmanuel Macron did the unthinkable: he became t…

Abelardo de la Espriella, promising an iron-fist approach to crime, leads polls in country’s presidential runoff election Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Abelardo de la Espriella, the far-right lawyer who is leading the polls ahead of Colombia ’s presidential runoff election, has marketed his rum, wine and menswear brands – as well as his novels and albums on which he croons po…

Union says collective agreement is just the start of a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country Canadian warehouse workers have signed the first-ever collective agreement with Walmart, a breakthrough labour organizers are calling a “historic and powerful step”. But the union says the deal with a corporation long hostile to organized labour is only an opening salvo in a broader…