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As the 2027 general election approaches, the 2023 Lagos State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, met with President Bola Tinubu yesterday. Before this, he had also engaged in consultations with prominent national leaders, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar...

Science & Nature A former government science adviser dissects the complex meshing of science and policy...Read MoreMichele Roberie

By Samantha Walravens Climate change and American flag in two directions on road sign. Withdrawal of climatic agreement. getty Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is already having a chilling effect on corporate climate commitments, with major banks backing away from environmental pledges and businesses reconsidering their green investments. The implications for

Science & Nature In the wake of the November 2024 US election, several commentators have suggested that the US Democratic Party abandon its commitment...

Tuesday was quite the day in American politics. Former President Donald Trump was arraigned in Manhattan and pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying business records in the first degree. It was also Election Day in one of the country’s purplest states and its third-largest city...

How concerned, if at all, are you about the possibility that AI will cause the end of the human race on Earth? And more importantly for the purposes of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, is that a good or bad use of polling? In this installment, the crew discuss how reflective of public opinion a recent

March 7, 2023 -- The political wars waged over public health recommendations on how to fight the COVID-19 pandemic have had a direct effect on the trust in public health agencies such as the CDC and FDA, according to the results of a survey conducted by Harvard researchers.The study, published on March 6 in the

Simon Richards is sustainability director at Sir Robert McAlpine Over the past few years, there has been no shortage of promises to clamp down on climate change, and the legal commitment for the UK to be net-zero carbon by 2050 remains one of the most ambitious targets of the past decade. However, while impressive on