As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
New research suggests mainstream politicians created an opening for the populist right
Mounting fiscal crises show how not to handle the demographic crunch
In the age of social media, the establishment no longer controls the narrative
Falling fertility levels are making the world more conservative, and may harm rather than help the planet
More and more of the numbers needed to guide policy are going dark
Disorder is rising in public consciousness. Is it rising in reality?
Society sold the dream of home ownership — then cruelly snatched it away
Unpicking the puzzle of increasing junior white-collar unemployment
In a rapidly warming world, a former extravagance is becoming a necessity
For all the controversy over the charge, the evidence so far is mostly positive
Outside of the Maga ecosystem, bad economic news is starting to cut through
New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers
Media fragmentation and the erosion of shared sources of truth are bigger threats
Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning
US decisions can no longer be analysed using assumptions shared across the democratic west
A decade of accumulated sporting failure is now hitting the club’s bottom line
A spate of high-profile incidents has shone fresh light on aviation safety
The US and UK have been underestimating population growth but with diverging implications
Millennials across the west were united in their economic malaise. Their successors not so much
Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?
A rise in the number of single people is becoming a key driver of falling birth rates
What appears on the surface to be a flat trend masks churn beneath
The panic over AGI disinformation in this year’s political cycle seems to have been overblown
Populism is the winner in the shift from traditional to social media and from text to video and audio
