Over the past couple years, disinformation campaigns have increasingly been imposing dangers to American democracy and election integrity. According to the recent report “Exhausting and Dangerous”: The Dire Problem of Election Misinformation and Disinformation by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, 64% of Americans believe democracy is at risk...
The past couple years have demonstrated that recovery from COVID-19 varies greatly from person to person. After the start of the pandemic in spring of 2020, patients began reporting lingering symptoms and an inability to fully recover. These patients began to call themselves “Long Haulers” and soon coined the term...
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research published a report called Stopping School Shootings: Lessons from Parkland, Oxford, Uvalde, and the Federal Commission on School Safety. Author Thomas Wheeler, former senior adviser and senior counsel to the U.S. secretary of education and the White House Federal Commission on School...
The Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) has released a new report, Emergent Technologies and Extremists: The DWeb as a New Internet Reality? This report focuses on the pros and cons of the Decentralised Web (DWeb) in regards to right‑wing extremists and the Islamic State (IS) and their likelihood...
The U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons has released their annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2022. This year’s edition provides a special focus on perspectives of survivors, acknowledging their important role in combatting human trafficking, and engaging their advice and efforts. Many survivors have...
The Biden administration, through the interagency National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS), just launched Heat.gov, a website that serves as a hub for extreme heat and the health of the nation by providing clear, science-based information to understand and reduce the health risks that can be caused by extreme...
Researchers with the Technology and Social Change Project (TaSC) at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy reviewed federal court documents for 417 defendants charged with federal crimes related to the January 6th, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. In their working paper,...
In May 2016, President Obama issued Executive Order 13729: A Comprehensive Approach to Atrocity Prevention and Response, which states, “preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States.” Building on this idea, the U.S. Government has just released its...
The Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting of the Eighty-seventh Legislature released an interim report for consideration. Although investigations still continue, the committee put together this interim report with as many facts as possible regarding the events that transpired on May 24, 2022. The report is meant to honor...
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) maintains a collection of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), which collects and analyzes data from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on epidemiology and public health. Each issue of the MMWR is packed with raw and analyzed public health data and...
