Guest speaker J. Toscano addressed University of Connecticut students at Susan V. Herbst Hall about how political media influences elections on Monday, March 10.

From tariffs to deportations, Trump’s policies are inflationary—but enforcing antitrust laws could help working families.

President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using ...

For instance, in response to the European Union’s Digital Services Act, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee, expressed concerns that the act could threaten ...

Failure to curb dissemination of falsehood via social media can have long-term effects on democratic processes.

The 2024 election was supposed to be a brutal wake-up call for Democrats. Donald Trump won the election by taking advantage of alternative media and building a campaign on viral moments. MAGA had (and ...

David Bailey, a longtime Bitcoin investor and evangelist, had tempered expectations in early 2024 when he first pitched Donald Trump’s campaign on the political upside of embracing cryptocurrency. Eve ...

The dangers posed by misinformation extend far beyond online forums; they manifest tangibly in societal rifts, wasted ...

The 2025 local elections are the second time that Illinois Democrats are getting involved in nonpartisan races. After recruiting more than 1,000 prospective candidates last year, the state party is ...

History has seen many examples of regimes consisting of an ... ruling over weak institutions and using their positions as platforms for self-enrichment. Such regimes aren’t just run-of-the ...

Foreign influence campaigns of the kind waged by Putin are designed to deepen division in countries. On her first day in the ...

For example ... platform, and they have around 35,000 donors, and [Simon Holmes à Court’s] contribution is relatively small. So it’s Climate 200, not Simon, that helps fund campaigns.