Human rights groups say the jailing of Grigory Melkonyants, the head of independent election watchdog Golos, is the latest reminder of the wave of repression that has swept through civil society here since Russi
A construction project on one of Newark Liberty International airport’s three main runways wrapped up nearly two weeks early, so the Federal Aviation Administration expects to begin easing flight limits next week Associated PressJune 2, 2025 What Is Shavuot? the Jewish Festival That Start...
Rates would then end the year at 6.7%, which is higher than economists previously thought. "Significant policy uncertainty has increased market volatility, as investors work to peer through the fog to assess the net impact of a swirl of ever-changing tariff pronouncements. The likely impact of...
"Misuse" is therefore an undeniably contentious and political concept. As such, we aim to stick with reasonably clear cases of mis- use that are likely to be seen as harmful to large swathes of society. An "intervention," in turn, describes an action or policy that has the goal of ...
As well as their own welfare, national leaders also have to consider whether it is the right time for their party and their country to have a change of leader. While Ardern’s star was considered to be waning – domestically, at least – ahead of a general election later this year, Stur...
politics is marked by increasing turbulence (Margetts et al. 2015), from sur- prise election results, such as Theresa May's slender majority in 2017, to seismic political shifts, such as the Brexit vote in 2016, and party schisms, such as the 11-MP breakaway to Change UK in 2019. ...
Although Indonesia is a new democratic country, its democracy is towards a better quality because of the emergence of various government regulations, such as press freedom law and public information disclosure law, making relation processes and information accesses more transparent (Kriyantono et al.,...
If you’ve ever made cookies, you know that if you use quality ingredients and follow the recipe, everything will probably turn out fine. It helps if you have some experience with the tools you’ll use and with making cookies in general. Making science is kind of like that. ...
Not only are Ministers open to evidence, but there is an institutional grounding for evidence-based policy in government. Meanwhile, the creation of devolved institutions has created new sites in the UK for evidence-based policy-making, despite the political tensions between UK and devolved ...
Well, you can guess what happened next. Some thin-skinned, looking-to-whine, powderpuff student went shrieking to the school’s dean. In a sensible world, the dean would have instructed the aforementioned student to go fuck themselves, but times being what they are, this, instead, is what...