During a recent conversation, Martin Rees offered a thumbnail take on biological terrorism, in the process illustrating why he is known as one of the world’s most effective communicators on existential risk. “I worry very ...
Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Pool via REUTERS In his first speech as Prime Minister outside 10 Downing Street yesterday (25 October), Rishi Sunak said of his predecessor that “mistakes were made”. This is a form ...
In response to concerns about disinformation and the rise of authoritarian political movements, leaders in education, journalism, and civic life have called for media literacy initiatives to educate the public—and young people, in particular—about the ...
A new CNN poll, conducted by SSRS and published Monday, showed that 75% of Americans see inflation as their top economic concern but only 25% of them approve of Biden’s efforts to tame it. This ...
The following contains spoilers for Nightwing #93, now on sale from DC Comics Recent issues of Nightwing has been an exciting period of change for Dick Grayson. Batman’s original sidekick has found himself stepping into ...
Americans don’t agree about much these days, but most agree that their democracy is in danger. What most concerns us is not outright failure—after all we had an election in 2020, the votes were counted, ...
The government has been accused of trying to manipulate announcements on extra funding for poorer parts of the UK in a desperate attempt to save Boris Johnson’s premiership. An extraordinary row blew up after Michael ...
For those too young to remember, Sister Souljah was a famous hip-hop star and activist for a short while, who gave an interview about violence against white people shortly after the 1992 LA riots proposed. ...
West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin suffers political defeat thanks to his support for Barack Obama and is therefore uniquely qualified to provide advice on what many believe is the president’s central political problem – his ...
On social media, fake news spreads faster, further, deeper and wider than the truth. In 2018, my colleagues Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy and I showed this in the largest longitudinal study to date on the ...
