How are governments worldwise using AI and other tech to administer the welfare state? Find out about research, policy and investigations into the digital welfare state, including digital surveillance...

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Countries are forcing tech giants to store citizen data locally, challenging the standard business model of harvesting data abroad while keeping profits at home.

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level There is no question more urgent than the one indicated by that red arrow in the graph...

Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago

The political economy of Claudia Sheinbaum’s popularity

This study investigates the low health insurance coverage among pregnant women and new mothers in selected health zones of DRC, aiming to identify und…

The tariffs proposed by Donald Trump, which are far larger than any on the books today, would significantly raise the prices faced by American consumers across the income scale.

The president has historically opposed federal minimum wage hikes as Democrats push a 2025 bill to raise wages nationwide.

By tearing up a Biden-era executive order that set a minimum wage for workers on federal contracts, the Trump administration has made some private sector workers vulnerable to pay cuts of up to 25 per...

Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information

Tax has been an important tool of Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.

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CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration ta...

The powerful new AI model is designed to analyze intercepted communications – but experts say such systems can exacerbate biases and are prone to making mistakes

There is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spending

Instead of old-fashioned rhetoric about costs to the state, the government should tell a better story about welfare

Exclusive: The DWP must ‘take responsibility’ for its mistakes, campaigners say

When your president is also a car salesman.

The evidence shows international aid – when spent correctly – can bring tremendous benefits and save millions of lives, writes expert and author Stefan Dercon. But if helping people cope with deprivat...

Billionaire Elon Musk discusses DOGE's long-term goals on 'Kudlow.'

One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos estimate...

The richest person in the world wants to cut Social Security benefits that 70 million people rely on. Meanwhile, he’s been gotten $38 billion so far in government contracts and subsidies to enrich himself and his businesses. Makes total sense.

Editorial: Labour’s ‘pragmatism’ isn’t neutral – it locks the party into fiscal caution, reinforcing stagnation and fuelling the very instability it seeks to avoid