Platforms optimized for engagement warp our politics, erode attention, and harm our wellbeing. Here’s how I minimize time on the (anti‑)social web.

It is often argued that returns to R&D are low in developing countries, making imported technologies a better path to growth. Yet technologies designed for frontier nations may not fit local conditions, limiting their productivity gains. This column studies Brazil’s Embrapa, a large public R&D effort to create agricultural innovation suited to Brazil’s ecology. Embrapa shifted research toward local needs and raised agricultural productivity by 110%, far outweighing its costs. Sustained, locally targeted R&D can be a key part of development policy.

A Escola de Inverno é o braço de formação intensiva em métodos, conceitos e teorias sociais do IESP-UERJ.

Mudanças na legislação eleitoral levaram a uma compactação do sistema partidário

Mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz have won Germany's 2025 election. Here's a look in charts at the wins and losses, seats in parliament, possible coalition outcomes and voter demographics...

YouTube is about to turn 20. An unusual research method is unveiling statistics about the platform that Google would rather keep hidden.

Método simples e eficiente de geolocalizar dados no Brasil. O pacote é baseado em conjuntos de dados espaciais abertos de endereços brasileiros, utilizando principalmente o Cadastro Nacional de Endere...

The journalist Kara Swisher discusses Elon Musk's goals in government — and the factors that have led to his radicalization.

Rejeição supera aprovação, de 31%, e chega ao maior patamar numérico do mandato

We examine the effect of the most important anti-majoritarian institution-judicial review of constitutionality which empowers some courts to invalidate laws alr

Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy

Easily pull data from the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court (TSE) and Cepesp's electoral data repositories

Functions to handle and aggregate population estimates for Brazilian municipalities by sex and age groups.

Republicanos parece se preparar para assumir papel de principal representante eleitoral da direita; PSDB não elege vereador em SP