When performance issues look like people problems, they’re often really system problems—and this post shows how to spot the ...

This week, Co-hosts Brandon Rottinghaus and Jeronimo Cortina discuss how the United States is more polarized than ever, why ...

No campaign or party will pass on the power of A.I. to manipulate. Trust, the key to democracy and community and already ...

The violence at the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner on Saturday underscores how dangerous this political moment is ...

The Cook Political Report shifted four Senate races to the left on Monday but noted that the GOP is still favored to maintain its majority in the upper chamber this November. “With an increasingly ...

Standing, from left, are Kameshia Swanson, Department of English assistant professor; Dustin Brown, Department of Sociology associate professor; Danielle Young, Department of Mathematics and ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of published results are replicated by new studies.

Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Established by Executive Order, PCAST brings together the ...

For Meingold Chan, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science, studying epigenetics can be analogized to playing a piece of sheet music. When ...

Turning on the "For You" algorithm on X (formerly Twitter) may shift users' political opinions toward more conservative views, suggests research involving nearly 5,000 X users. These effects are shown ...

For years, compulsive behaviors have been viewed as bad habits stuck on autopilot. But new research in rats found the opposite: inflammation in a key decision-making brain region actually made ...