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Attitudes towards the environment have evolved over time, in part due to greater awareness about the challenges posed by climate change. Policy plays a part in this process, including through the decentralisation of policy responsibilities to the regional and local governments. This column shows that there is a link between policy decentralisation and attitudes towards the

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including how conspiracy theories are enabling politicians to drive a new culture war, revelations about Minority Leader McCarthy after Jan. 6, the Biden administration’s numerous challenges and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s day in court.

At the beginning of the PBS NewsHour is a subtle graphic with these words: “HONEST BALANCED TRUSTED.” There was nothing honest and nothing balanced on Friday night as our taxpayer-funded "newscast" smeared at least half the country who believe it’s inappropriate to teach kindergarteners sexual orientation and ge

The comments on German television were aimed at explaining, and insulting, Russians but they wound up illuminating a lot more beyond Russia.

Both parenthood and parental care motivation are linked to higher levels of religiosity, according to new research published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. The study provides evidence that parents are drawn to religion because it fosters social norms that are beneficial to their offspring. ...

A new wave raises questions about identity, elections and how we live. Conventional politics must answer them or die, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Overcoming the Barriers to Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Philippines report sets out to better understand what is holding women back from the labor market and what is hindering the Philippines’ gain from the growth potential associated with women’s economic empowerment

Instead of the world converging around Western democratic values, it’s now diverging as more nations seek to make their countries great again in their own way.

A sense of community and low levels of pollution are strong predictors of well-being. A mixture of individual factors (such as income and employment status or religiosity) and country-level factors (from level of corruption to pollution) affect how satisfied people are with their lives, but some big contributors to happiness are harder to quantify and compare,A sense of community and low levels of pollution are strong predictors of well-being. A mixture of individual factors (such as income and ...

I’m from a fortunate generation. I can remember a time — about a quarter-century ago — when the world seemed to be coming together. The great Cold War contest between communism and capitalism appeared to be over. Democracy was still spreading. Nations were becoming more economically interdependent. The internet seemed ready to foster worldwide communications.... Read more »