Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” ...

Well-known flaws in conventional polling methods may be creating the incorrect perception that many Americans think political ...

Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political ...

An example of this conflict occurred in the 1920s when Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, rejected natural selection in ...

The Tylenol multi-district litigation is not an outlier—rather, it’s an example of made-for-litigation science, seemingly ...

Kimberly Saks, a political science professor at the University of Michigan-Flint, explains what the Insurrection Act is and ...

Over the course of its second season, the podcast has covered contentious topics ranging from gain-of-function research to ...

A May 2025 report by Randy Boyagoda, Provostial Advisor on Civil Discourse at U of T, found that students feared facing ...

The Economist and former CNN and Washington Post journalist Chris Cilizza rely on it. So does Bloomberg News, which cited the project as showing “Islamists and those on the political right to be the ...

One hopeful note, said Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the Centers for Violence Prevention at UC Davis, is that although his surveys have shown similar trends where more young people than older ...

Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors ...