As revealed in the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer, Western societies are becoming increasingly polarized, with the US severely polarized and several countries, such as the UK, France and the Netherlands ...

In new book, CU Boulder researcher Liam Downey argues that different forms of violence produce both consent to the social order and divisions among subordinate social groups, which helps to maintain ...

Taylor Marvin's musings on the breakdown of social order and the loss of the state's monopoly on violence in Gotham in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight is well worth the read. I'm not entirely sure ...

China, once synonymous with rigid control and social order, is now witnessing a growing wave of chaos. Acts of random violence, revenge attacks, and expressions of deep-rooted societal dissatisfaction ...