Three new reports give some surprising reasons for optimism.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interior of a modern data center. (Photo by Imaginima/Getty Images) Data centers evoke strong and conflicting opinions. Advocates ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin ...

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 ...

The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz will present “Data and Democracy”—the fifth installment of its signature Questions That Matter series—on Tuesday, January 29, at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in ...

The dedication to accuracy, identification, and resource equality is driving Kenya's quest for inclusive governance as it embarks on a digital journey, marking a significant step towards a data-driven ...

Data centers evoke strong and conflicting opinions. Advocates point to the truly significant revenue they can generate for local governments. Opponents point to data centers' enormous energy needs, ...