Evangelical churches use small talk to enforce conformity, silence dissent on race and gender, pushing congregations toward the political right.

Nvidia depends on a single Taiwanese factory, and neither Washington nor Beijing fully controls it: the real stakes of the AI chip war.

The expansion of the national security state raises urgent questions about democratic oversight and constitutional limits.

Honesty is eroding in many areas of society today. Indeed, it is not mere rhetorical flourish to say that we are facing a number of honesty crises.

Rising political pressure on central banks is raising new questions about democratic legitimacy

As EU leaders expand defense budgets and loosen fiscal constraints, is Europe entering a structural war economy?

AI backlash: data center protests and rising public anxiety are reshaping U.S. elections, pitting state regulation against federal preemption.

What once seemed like neutral innovation has become a transformative force in finance, culture, and law. Yet the moral frameworks...

World Values Survey Association

Explores how democracy, media freedom, and gender equality shape abortion attitudes across countries through cultural, political, and social lenses.

Explore the role of Black women in shaping human rights, turning a distant ideal into a global practice rooted in resistance, solidarity, and justice.

Analysis of anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles, focusing on immigrant rights, public resistance, and threats to democratic values.

Project 2025 seeks to remake the U.S. state by centralizing executive power, purging civil institutions, and enforcing a singular ideological order.

Human rights discourse in supranational courts: how language, translation, and genre shape justice across ECtHR, IACtHR, and ACtHPR decisions.

Scholarship on populism has dominated the last two decades but is now retreating in the face of a new concept : that of illiberalism.

How U.S. bankruptcy law deepens inequality—Melissa Jacoby’s Unjust Debts exposes a system that punishes the vulnerable and protects the powerful.

What shapes violence more—place or perception? This essay explores how power, media, and narrative influence what we ignore as violence.

An analysis of how attacks on truth and evidence-based institutions threaten democratic life amid rising authoritarianism in the United States.

Discover how ordinary people become war criminals. Alette Smeulers reveals 14 perpetrator types and the psychology behind mass atrocities.

State sovereignty drives global language loss and fuels attacks on diversity, as shown through fieldwork in Tibet.

Modern leaders face crises and distractions that undermine long-term thinking, creating a short-termism trap that weakens democratic governance.

Protest, political voice, and marginalized groups are key to resisting democratic erosion amid rising authoritarianism and a crisis of representation.

How neoliberalism redefined democracy in Europe after 1989, weakening representation and fueling technocracy, populism, and citizen discontent.

Explore how Cuba's kleptocracy operates, its impact, and why it matters for global corruption and regional stability.

New York’s political order has long combined neoliberal, conservative, and egalitarian forces, defying the idea that it is simply a liberal stronghold.

Land power shapes societal fate. Albertus shows how who owns land still drives inequality, politics, and global change in the 21st century.

As a psychiatrist, I’ve spent my career working with patients who have delusions—that is, false beliefs held with unassailable conviction like believing that one is the Second Coming of Christ or…

Abolition is not obedience undone, but freedom reclaimed. This essay weaves abolitionist constellations as maps toward justice and inner truth.

Explores how love (ai) became a political discourse in modern China—bridging religion, nationalism, socialism, and affective governance.

Explores how freedom without responsibility can lead to chaos, hypocrisy, and tyranny. From pandemics to politics, liberty is under siege.

In merely 20 years, China leapfrogged developed economies to build an e-commerce market with 800 million users, capturing nearly 50% of global online retail sales.

Explores the causes of war, examining psychological, biological, cultural, ecological, and ideological perspectives throughout human history.

Free our Feeds, a collective of tech leaders including Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Mozilla Foundation president Mark Surman, wants to raise US$30M to protect Bluesky.