Fired by a political animus and what constitutes good science, the “Naledi Wars” show no immediate sign of abating.

A sweeping 26-country study reveals a consistent gap in trust toward climate scientists based on political ideology, with ...

Landsgemeinde” in Glarus is like a folk festival, a party, and a crash-course in politics rolled into one. Is it democratically relevant?

It's called action research. The basic idea of the pioneers of action research was to get out of the laboratories and into the field with practitioners, whatever their chosen discipline. The idea was ...

The classics of "sciences po" cover virtually every field of human endeavor, from economic or scientific policy to communications management or the administration of justice, via commercial or ...

By going after gain-of-function research in “countries of concern,” the president and his administration are engaging in ...

Academia remains locked in a self-perpetuating cycle of growing left-wing bias that erodes its public legitimacy. Elite ...

We have a responsibility to ensure that our discoveries are used in the public interest. That isn’t always easy.

Serious environmental issues face the nation, from climate change to biodiversity, yet they have become so contentious, solutions are difficult, a speaker from the University of Texas at Austin says.

Researchers have begun to notice a group of voters driven by the need for chaos. Similar to political nihilism, need for ...

Today the concept of academic freedom may seem obvious to Americans. But the roots of academic freedom, which can be traced ...

What kind of democracy do legislators want? This question was at the center of a recent discussion with Melody Crowder-Meyer, ...