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🏛️ Politics
January 30, 2026

Is Trump about to rig the midterm elections?

The election offices of Fulton County were raided by FBI agents yesterday morning. Fulton, in the state of Georgia, was at the heart of Donald Trump's claims six years ago that he’d won the 2020 election (he didn’t). Why are ballot boxes of archived votes now being removed from the premises? Is this still about a six years ago old grudge? Or does it presage Trump's plan for the November midterm elections? We speak to the Commissioner on the premises who watched the action unfold before her ey...

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🌍 Geopolitics
January 30, 2026

Salvaging a New START

It is too late to execute a full reextension of the nuclear arms control agreement, but the U.S. can take steps toward stability with Russia. The post Salvaging a New START appeared first on The American Conservative

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👥 Society
January 30, 2026

Mass Shootings in the United States

The authors describe approaches for defining a mass shooting and how these definitions can influence estimates of mass shooting trends. They then summarize findings from the literature regarding the characteristics and consequences of mass shootings

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🏛️ Politics
January 30, 2026

The Science of Gun Policy

This report, in its fifth edition, synthesizes the available scientific evidence for the effects of various firearm policies on firearm deaths, violent crime, the gun industry, defensive gun use, and other outcomes

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🏛️ Politics
January 30, 2026

Rhetoric versus reality

Afternoon all, Happy new year! Keir Starmer kicked it off talking about cost of living, and it was a pleasure to do the same on a special episode of More or Less (and to tick ‘meeting Tim Harford’ off the geek bucket list!). Since we recorded it before the Prime Minister’s comments, find a break-down of rhetoric … Continued The post Rhetoric versus reality appeared first on Resolution Foundation

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