The phrase “international rules-based order” has long been a fixture in global politics. Western leaders often use it to describe a framework of rules, norms and institutions designed to guide state ...

OK, enough of this uplift. Back to business. A few months ago, after I had done a post about destructive rule-changes in current American politics, Andrew Sprung wrote back with this refinement: ...

My bike on the trails near Grünau im Almtal, Austria Source: Erin L. Krupka We’ve all had this experience in some way or another: You find yourself in a new environment, and you don’t know what the ...

The filibuster debate has focused on whether the rule facilitates or stifles negotiation and compromise. Of course, the rule – that 60 votes are required to end debate – doesn’t do either. It’s the ...

What is yours is not mine, and what is mine is not yours — unless we agree to share it. This simple example of how we agree on ownership of objects around us is something that may come naturally to us ...

A Washington State Senator Is Looking to Unseat One of the Quirkiest, Most Vulnerable House Dems in ’26 A West Coast Mamdani The Problem with the Republican Party? All the Democrats Gavin Newsom’s ...

We propose evolutionary dynamics to show how rules converge into norms. Individuals play a game of upholding or rejecting a rule, and the more they uphold the rule, the more it becomes established as ...

There will be no effective Third Offset reasserting American leadership in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence until there is simultaneous effort on a — well, call it a Fourth Offset ...

Three-year-olds quickly absorb social norms. They even understand behaviors as rule-governed that are not subject to any norms, and insist that others adhere to these self-inferred "norms," a new ...