Politics

• How and why people spread rumors is key to understanding how false information travels and takes root
• What the presidential candidates have done, and where they stand, on education
• Political pros no better than public in predicting which messages persuade, researchers find
• News consumers are more influenced by political alignment than by truth, study shows
• Veterans and military family members improve election confidence, study finds
• Q&A: Navigating the minefield of election disinformation
• Tech billionaire Elon Musk's social media posts have had a 'sudden boost' since July, new research reveals
• Decoding the body language of politicians: Beware of misleading analyses
• Expert shares advice on how to ease anxiety this election season
• Religion in the workplace is tricky, but employers and employees both lose when it becomes a total taboo
• New book explains how the internet has propelled extremism to forefront of 21st-century politics
• What monkeys might teach us about evaluating presidential candidates
• Colonialism, starvation and resistance: How food is weaponized, from Gaza to Canada
• Rust Belt voters aren't all white, but reporting often ignores the concerns of people of color there, says geographer
• Americans own guns to protect themselves from psychological as well as physical threats, researcher says