Politics & Current Affairs

Sudan leaves behind only two other northern white rhinos, but artificial reproductive technologies could provide a future for the subspecies.

The history of women being elected to offices of supreme power is short. Here are 10 women who have made the most of that time.

A former employee of Cambridge Analytica has revealed new information on the harvesting of Facebook users’ data prior to the 2016 presidential election.

It is still true that far more men than women have leading roles in many organisations.

People have debated what justice is exactly for the last 3,000 years. How have our ideas changed in that time?

El Castillo, a pyramid in Mexico, was built in such a way that the “snake of sunlight” would slither down its steps at the dawning of each equinox, as the sun rose into the sky.

An innocuous sounding company, Strategic Communications Laboratories, was banned by Facebook. But the data the company mined was used by Trump’s campaign to whip the electorate into political animosity.

The United States has 5 per cent of the world’s population but 25 per cent of its prisoners. Right now, 2.2 million people are locked up across the country, and […]

Punishment has been a human universal, because it has been in our evolutionary interests. But those evolutionary impulses are crude guides to how we should deal with offenders in contemporary society.

There are few more powerful positions than being a Supreme Court justice, yet the female justices are just like other women: talked over by their male colleagues.

Women’s participation in the labor force has soared over the past 50 years, rising from 32 percent in 1948 to 56.7 percent as of January. Yet those gains have not […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk appealed to President Trump on Twitter last week following tough talk on trade with China.

The history of women in brewing goes back millennia where it was a respected profession. How did it help give rise to our modern image of witches?

People often argue that most Western societies have achieved gender equality. Despite this, feminists continue to argue that the battle is not yet won.

Newly released documents show how the FBI paid Best Buy Geek Squad employees to report customers who had child pornography on their computers, a relationship that might have violated customers’ Fourth Amendment rights.

DST has implications on our history, our health, and even our chances of being the victim of a crime.

For Women’s History Month we have a list of seven all women teams who changed history. Some were scientists, some soldiers, some living, and some long gone. All of them shaped the world.

The Nonhuman Rights Project turns to philosophy to persuade courts to honor chimpanzees’ rights.

In a state-of-the-nation speech just weeks before Russia’s presidential election, President Vladimir Putin claimed his country had two new nuclear-powered weapons systems.

The American public is split on whether to provide a “safety net” to workers displaced by advancements in artificial intelligence.

How do we even define mental illness?

Is there a connection between mental health and gun violence? Here’s what the experts think and the stats show.

Warren Buffett’s letter to shareholders for 2017 contains valuable insights into recent market activity, and also explains how he won a 10-year bet with Wall Street.

Nietzsche has had a large influence on political history, but what did he really think of all the ideologies he examined?

President Trump wants to end “chain migration”. Is a merit-based system better?

Stephen Fry announces that he’s had surgery for prostate cancer nine the most Stephen-Fry way possible.

At least 60 will be running at the federal level, and thousands for state offices.

Why civilians do not need to own guns like the AR-15.

We often like to consider the ideas of great thinkers when looking at an issue. To that end, Albert Einstein once wrote an essay explaining why he was a socialist. We break it down here.

The FCC is scheduled to repeal net neutral on April 23, but Democrats still have a long-shot chance of turning things around.