Four all-star panels presented on trends in political data analysis and strategy at the 2026 Columbia University Political ...

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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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 ...

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.

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, 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 term “democratizing data” has been gaining traction in recent years, but what does it truly mean? Without question, it refers to making data accessible to all individuals within an organization, ...