Mar 18, 2024 09:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Just when you think nothing can surprise you anymore in Israeli politics, someone always comes along with a new twist. This time it was Yitzhak Yosef, one of Israels two chief rabbis. In response to debates over whether...
Did Biden really steal the election? Students learn how to debunk conspiracy theories in this course
Mar 18, 2024 09:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Title of course: Debunking conspiracy theories What prompted the idea for the course? I am interested in how people internalize or learn about political beliefs they go on to adopt. This interest coincided with my...
Trump wouldn’t be the first presidential candidate to campaign from a prison cell
Mar 18, 2024 09:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The first trial ever of a former president, the so-called hush money case against former president and likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, is scheduled to begin with jury selection in New York on March 25, 2024,...
Half the world will vote in 2024, but how many elections will be fair?
Mar 18, 2024 09:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This year has been widely proclaimed to be the year of elections, with national elections expected in at least 64 countries. This means that half of the worlds population will have the opportunity to change their...
Michael Gove’s extremism definition: four things about his announcement that make no sense
Mar 18, 2024 09:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The UK government has unveiled its new definition of extremism, but has raised more questions than it has answered in the process. Extremism is now defined as the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on...
Ukraine war: ten years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky
Mar 18, 2024 09:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
It is ten years since Russia illegally annexed Crimea on March 18 2014. Subsequent efforts to firmly integrate the peninsula into the Russian Federation, however, have been far from the success story that the Kremlin often...
Levelling up is not working as promised – our research shows why
Mar 18, 2024 09:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The UK parliament has heard findings that levelling up arguably the Conservatives flagship policy agenda is beset by critical delays. In a report published on March 15, the public accounts committee, parliaments...
Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants