Are people getting better at avoiding misinformation?

Fewer Americans visited unreliable websites in the run-up to the 2020 US election than in 2016, researchers report.

Melissa De Witte-Stanford • futurity
April 27, 2023 ~8 min

Fretting about election stress is bad for your health

Just thinking about being stressed about future elections can harm your health. But there's something you can do about it.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
March 22, 2023 ~5 min


Book probes the politics of Marvel movies

A new book explores the political messages in the Marvel cinematic universe, including ideas about gender, power, and inequality.

Duke University • futurity
March 20, 2023 ~4 min

There’s ‘clear evidence’ of bias in past US state spending

New research shows a direct link between constituent race, class, and immigration status and US state spending between 1921 and 1961.

Sandra Knispel-U. Rochester • futurity
Feb. 21, 2023 ~7 min

Why there’s a fight over AP African American studies

"African American Studies is a step in the direction of the full integration of the Black experience into the American experience."

Sharon Driscoll-Stanford • futurity
Feb. 14, 2023 ~17 min

People who share ideology have similar ‘neural fingerprints’

"This research helps shed light on what happens in the brain that gives rise to political polarization," says Oriel FeldmanHall.

Brown University • futurity
Feb. 13, 2023 ~9 min

Time to get rid of your gas stove?

An expert explains the risks of gas stoves and what you can do to protect your health even if you can't switch to electric.

Boston University • futurity
Feb. 7, 2023 ~10 min

Politics don’t dominate ideas about COVID’s danger

Political beliefs do not seem to overshadow how people perceive the severity of the pandemic in their own communities, researchers find.

Eric Stann-Missouri • futurity
Jan. 17, 2023 ~5 min


Why the Magdeburg Confession inspires far-right activists

A relatively obscure 16th century document, the Magdeburg Confession, is getting attention in far-right circles. Here's the story.

Karen McCally-U. Rochester • futurity
Jan. 10, 2023 ~17 min

2016 election Russian disinformation mainly reached Republicans

New research finds that Russian disinformation on Twitter during the 2016 election primarily reached a small subset of users.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
Jan. 10, 2023 ~6 min

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