Asst. Prof. Kathleen Belew traces birth of hate groups to Vietnam War
The alt-right movement in America gained national headlines last fall when a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia turned deadly. (more…)
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Austrian city of Graz on Saturday on his way to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Mr. Putin was a guest at the wedding of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and Wolfgang Meilinger. (more…)
Optimism about the future of others is widespread even in the face of bad news — at least if the person is someone we care about. However, we can feel this optimism even for strangers if they possess a few admirable attributes, a new study by Yale and University of Oxford researchers suggests. (more…)
Examining a major road-building program in India, researchers at Princeton University and the Paris School of Economics used an innovative technique to show that political corruption increased the chances that roads meant to connect isolated areas to the rest of the country would never be built, even though the government had paid for them. (more…)
Can the president single-handedly toss out environmental rules designed to combat global warming? Force states like Washington to help enforce federal immigration laws? Fire Robert Mueller? (more…)
Consumers “forget” when products have ethical issues
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Many consumers have found a way to cope with the knowledge that products they like have been made unethically: They simply forget they ever knew it. (more…)
Sparsam und wirtschaftlich: Wie Effizienz als verfassungsrechtlicher Begriff und das Wesen der Demokratie zusammengehen, erforscht die Juristin Maria Bertel. Wie können staatliche Aktionen gemessen und beurteilt werden? (more…)
President Vladimir Putin met with pilot cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. The President in person congratulated her on the remarkable date – the 55th anniversary of her single-person flight around the Earth aboard the Vostok-6 spaceship, which began on June 16, 1963, and lasted almost three days. (more…)
