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Affirmative Action Motivates High School Students to Perform Better, According to New Research

Affirmative Action Motivates High School Students to Perform Better, According to New Research

On November 3, California voters will be asked to adopt Proposition 16, which would reinstate the power of California’s colleges and universities to consider race,…
The Majority of Americans Now Believe in Evolution

The Majority of Americans Now Believe in Evolution

The level of support for evolution among scientists, the general public, and other organizations is a recurring topic in the creation-evolution debate, and it impacts…
Wallacea’s Oldest Genome Reveals Previously Unknown Ancient Human Relations

Wallacea’s Oldest Genome Reveals Previously Unknown Ancient Human Relations

The oldest genome of a contemporary person discovered in the Wallacea Region of western Indonesia and Papua New Guinea suggests a previously unknown ancient human…
Canada Invokes Emergency Powers for First Time in History to Tackle Trucker Protests

Canada Invokes Emergency Powers for First Time in History to Tackle Trucker Protests

Faced with a nationwide convoy of truckers protesting vaccine mandates, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in…
Deliberative Democracy – a Form of Democracy

Deliberative Democracy – a Form of Democracy

Deliberation is a political approach in which citizens, not just experts or politicians, play an active role in community problem solving and public decision-making. Deliberative…
Public Participation – Directly Engages Public in Decision-making

Public Participation – Directly Engages Public in Decision-making

Any process that directly engages the public in decision-making and gives full consideration to public input in making that decision is considered public participation. The…
Participative Democracy – a Model of Democracy

Participative Democracy – a Model of Democracy

Participatory democracy, also known as participatory democracy, is a democratic model in which citizens are given the authority to make political decisions. Democracy’s etymological roots…
Participatory Budgeting – a process of democratic deliberation

Participatory Budgeting – a process of democratic deliberation

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend a portion of a public budget. It is a…
Maya Kings Inscribed Their Names on Massive Structures

Maya Kings Inscribed Their Names on Massive Structures

Maya stelae are monuments created by the ancient Mesoamerican culture of the Maya. They are made up of tall, sculpted stone shafts and are sometimes…
Aim of Inclusive Democracy

Aim of Inclusive Democracy

Inclusive Democracy is the highest form of democracy because it establishes the institutional foundations for political (or direct) democracy, economic democracy, social democracy, and ecological…
Inclusive Democracy – Democracy in the Socio-economic Realm

Inclusive Democracy – Democracy in the Socio-economic Realm

Inclusive democracy entails the participation of all citizens in policy formulation in order to include all citizens in the mainstream of politics. Inclusive Democracy (ID)…
A Growing Political Schism in U.S. may Jeopardize Research and Medicine

A Growing Political Schism in U.S. may Jeopardize Research and Medicine

The rapidity with which scientists produced and tested the COVID-19 vaccine is a remarkable scientific accomplishment, one that would not have been possible without the…
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