Canada has taken steps to address the potential for online misinformation ("fake news") in its upcoming election, but the internet changes rapidly.

A look at TV watching as a social activity, from the "water cooler" network shows of yore to today's "second screen" live-tweets.

For a younger generation trying to understand Marxism, the best way in may be: vampirism.

Online services like Amazon's "Mechanical Turk" have ushered in a golden age in survey research. But is it ethical for researchers to use them?

While America’s parents have been wringing their hands over online safety, kids have steadily taken to social media, smartphones, and other digitally-enabled technologies to seek and promote their physical safety.

How do presidential transitions really work? Political science scholarship on White House staffers provides some insight.

A political scientist argues that Harry Potter can be used to teach students about politics, institutional behavior, globalization, and identity. 

Three years ago, then-CIA director General David Petraeus resigned amid scandal: He'd had an affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell.

Tim Berners-Lee set up HTML (hypertext markup language) and HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) twenty-five years ago today.

Does it sometimes seem as if our political culture is a political cartoon?