Politics & Society Equality, Empathy, and Envy: Inside the “Liberal Brain” Social neuroscience explains why the Democrats are making a comeback in the mid-term elections.
Politics & Society “Judicial Dialogues on Health and Climate Change”: An Interview with Alicia Ely Yamin How can courts respond to the health impacts of climate change? On the occasion of a conference at Harvard Law School on 29 October 2026, sponsored by the Walter de Gruyter Foundation, we spoke with one of its conveners, Alicia Ely Yamin, about the right to health, climate change, and the role of judicial enforcement.
Politics & Society Public History Under Attack: An Interview with Jerome de Groot Over the past decade – perhaps more than ever – public history has become weaponized by the populist right around the world. In this interview, Jerome de Groot discusses how political shifts, funding cuts, and culture wars are redefining our relationship with the past.
Politics & Society Digital Linguistics: An Interview with Piotr Bański, Ulrich Heid and Laura Herzberg Nowadays, as huge swathes of our linguistic lives are recorded, measured and analyzed digitally, the question is no longer simply how much language data we have, but how well it is organized.