Democracy may be one of man’s greatest inventions, but it has suffered lately in many developed countries due to low citizen participation and general distrust of politicians and government ...

The July jobs report released last Friday wasn’t pretty. It showed weaker than anticipated U.S. job growth in July, and there were substantial downward revisions of jobs numbers for May and June as ...

Three new reports give some surprising reasons for optimism.

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Kimmo Elo is a political scientist and University Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland. Recent decades have seen an uptick in anti-democratic rhetoric and disinformation on various online ...

Data centers evoke strong and conflicting opinions. Advocates point to the truly significant revenue they can generate for local governments. Opponents point to data centers' enormous energy needs, ...

Web 3.0 promises to bring back data democracy, but it will do so with better, more sophisticated tools like artificial intelligence, flexible data networks, and the semantic Web. If Web 3.0 can gain a ...

When Donald Trump fired Dr. Kristine Joy Suh, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after a disappointing July jobs report, it wasn’t merely a personnel decision—it was a sharp break with precedent.

Data, the lifeblood of modern democracies, can also be their undoing when exploited by bad actors to spread misinformation. At a time when democracy itself is on the ballot in many countries, ...

The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz will present “Data and Democracy”—the fifth installment of its signature Questions That Matter series—on Tuesday, January 29, at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in ...