There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so. But there’s a wrinkle: My colleagues and I have found that there are a number of people sharing conspiracies online who don’t believe their own content.
As we near the first anniversary of the October 7 attack on Israel, the conflict in the Middle East has escalated significantly. Iran just launched nearly 200 missiles on Israel, and Israel has continued its fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza.
Over the summer of 2024, some 250 Russian children traveled to North Korea for a 10-day-long kids camp. Framed as cultural diplomacy, the event was the result of a new youth exchange launched in 2022 that sees Russian youth compete for the free trip abroad. To win a place, children have to write an essay on one of three subjects: the role of Russia in a multipolar world; children’s interest in the culture of North Korea; or the story they would like to tell North Korean children about Russia.
Les syndicats CGT, FSU, Solidaires appellent à une mobilisation massive ce mardi 1er octobre, jour du discours de politique générale du premier ministre, exigeant notamment l’abrogation des réformes des assurances retraite et chômage. Une journée test, alors que la nouvelle ministre du Travail, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, semble prête à certains compromis.
Aucun président de la République n’a été destitué dans l’histoire française. En revanche, de fortes tensions entre exécutif et législatif ont souvent conduit à la démission des chefs d’État, parfois à un basculement vers un régime autocratique.
À l’approche de l’élection présidentielle de novembre, chercheurs et éditorialistes, qui alertent l’opinion depuis les années 2010, continuent de s’inquiéter du délabrement apparent d’une démocratie états-unienne dont la dérive, à la fois institutionnelle et partisane, a commencé bien avant la première mandature de Donald Trump.
Michel Barnier a nommé le 21 septembre 2024 un gouvernement pléthorique de 39 ministres, qui marque la continuité d’un processus de rapprochement progressif entre la macronie et LR. L’historien Mathias Bernard nous raconte notamment les rôles joués par Gabriel Attal et Gérard Larcher. Entretien.
In their campaigns, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris project different emotions and moods. The contrast between them was particularly sharp during their debate on Sept. 10, 2024.
Tensions in the Middle East have reached a new high after thousands of pagers and radios used by members of Hezbollah exploded across various cities in Lebanon and Syria over September 17 and 18. The attacks – which have widely been attributed to Israel, which has not commented – have resulted in at least 30 people killed and more than 3,000 wounded.
The United States presidential election will be held on November 5. In analyst Nate Silver’s aggregate of national polls, Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump by 48.9–46.0. In my previous US politics article on September 9, Harris led Trump by 48.7–46.2.
Maladies, sport, sexualité, religion : quel que soit le sujet, l’extrême droite construit des menaces imaginaires dans le but de créer du conflit. Ces « paniques morales » sont des armes redoutables pour fracturer nos démocraties.
Mail-in voting in Pennsylvania will not begin on Sept. 16, 2024, as was previously slated. Due to ongoing court cases, the past is poised to repeat itself in the commonwealth in the upcoming presidential election.
A comprehensive review of the UK National Health Service’s performance has diagnosed the NHS as being in a “critical condition”. While also emphasising its strong “vital signs”, the report, by surgeon and former Labour minister Lord Darzi, certainly highlights many challenges.
It is easy to get distracted by the barbs, swipes and bluster of the ongoing and very public spat between the world’s richest man and a fierce justice on Brazil’s highest court. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, posts regularly of his contempt for Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes – a man Musk has labeled a “dictator” and “Brazil’s Darth Vader.” He makes these comments on a social media platform that Moraes has banned in Latin America’s most populous country as part of a lengthy campaign against disinformation.
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