Research on how groups form, change, and relate. Coverage tracks demography, family, race, class, education, and the institutions that shape daily life.
A lone attacker may be blocked by cutting off information and materials, but a state program mostly can’t be and has to be deterred instead. A policy analysis lays out nine layered defenses to cover both.
A scoping review of 327 studies on food vendors in 64 countries found definitions split by licensing, location and stall type, each likely to steer policy differently, while vendors’ own health, bribery and safety stayed thinly studied.
Publication records from roughly 35,000 researchers trace Ukraine’s scholarly map year by year, and the trail shows Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea shedding scholars from 2014 onward, with wealthier regions the easiest to leave.
Chatbot answers now draw on a wider range of claims than three years ago, a new analysis of 27 systems finds, yet even the most diverse one still trails a simple web search by nearly 19 percent.
A peer-reviewed analysis of nearly 700,000 federal contracts finds cancellations under Trump’s cost-cutting initiative fell hardest on counties that gave him the weakest support in 2024, even after accounting for population, income and prior federal spending.
Late ballot rejections nearly doubled in counties whose post offices lost their afternoon truck, a Brookings analysis of three states’ 2026 primaries finds, and voters there can offset the delay by mailing a few days early.
Asked without answer choices, a third of U.S. adults cannot name the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the 2026 Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey finds. Only freedom of speech is named by more than half. Knowledge of constitutional structure runs stronger than knowledge of rights.
U.S. singles have grown far more willing to date across religious, social and financial divides, new survey data show, but political party has hardened into one of the few traits many still refuse to overlook.
A global review of political polarization research finds that most studies, and nearly all the field’s rigorous experiments, focus on the United States, while replications run elsewhere have sometimes found the opposite effect entirely.
UK survey data show 18-to-29-year-olds now spend up to two more hours alone each day than in 2014-15, driven mostly by remote work rather than phone use, even as loneliness rates climbed alongside them.
A pro-Russian hacker collective has launched more than 1,500 DDoS attacks since 2022, paying volunteers in cryptocurrency while treating each outage as a stage for undermining public trust in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) governments.
A South Korean team’s system called SweepLED sweeps LED light across a room and reads how the reflections bend, catching camera lenses that ordinary detectors mistake for glass, chrome or a shiny doorknob roughly nineteen times out of twenty.