October 4, 2025

Trading on trust: How US senators may be turning lawmaking into profit

A landmark study of thousands of stock trades reveals consistent patterns of profit linked to lawmaking timelines—and proposes a new way forward.

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Opinion: American TikTok deal doesn’t address the platform’s potential for manipulation, only who profits

On Sept. 25, the Donald Trump administration in the United States again extended the TikTok ban-or-divest law, possibly for the last time. The latest extension to the law, which was passed in 2024 by the [...]
Political views, not sex and violence, now drive literary censorship

Liberals and conservatives both oppose censorship of children’s literature—unless the writing offends their own ideology, new Cornell research finds.This post was originally published on this site
Do ID cards help stop undocumented migrants from finding work?

One of the U.K.’s biggest political problems comes in a small size. The size of a small boat, in fact.This post was originally published on this site
Deferred prosecution agreements in corporate crime cases show trade-offs, says research

Price-fixing, bribery, and fraud are leading forms of corporate crime. Since the early 2000s, deferred or non-prosecution agreements (D/NPAs) have increasingly been used in the U.S. and elsewhere to deal with some of these cases, [...]
Images of masculinity as factor in war: New study reveals psychological roots of violence

A brutal childhood, glorified toughness, destructive images of masculinity: the recent scandal surrounding Elon Musk’s father Errol shows how abused power, violence and outdated notions of masculinity continue to have an impact today. According to [...]
Text message reminders for court appearances can reduce warrants and pretrial incarceration

Have you ever forgotten about an upcoming doctor’s appointment—only to be reminded the day before by a text from your doctor’s office? People with legal obligations might also forget about upcoming court dates, but the [...]
Tariffs may bring a US$50 billion monthly boost to the US government. But ordinary Americans won’t feel the benefit

Donald Trump’s recent state visit to the UK ended without the removal of steel tariffs, which the host nation had been hoping for. For months, the US president’s array of “liberation day” tariffs have sparked [...]
Violent acts in houses of worship are rare but deadly: Here’s what the data show

On Sept. 28, 2025, at least four people were killed and eight others injured during a Sunday service at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Just a month [...]
Conventional anti-corruption tools often fail to address root causes—loss of US leadership could still spell trouble

For nearly half a century, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has made it illegal for U.S. citizens and companies to bribe foreign officials. Since 1998, that has been the case for foreign companies listed on [...]
As global economy doubles, poverty persists and planetary damage deepens

A new study published in Nature shows that as the global economy more than doubled between 2000 and 2022, it still left billions of people without life’s essentials, while rapidly pushing Earth’s life-supporting systems further [...]