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The observation that powerful situations shape human cognition, motivation, emotion, and behavior is a central theme in social psychology in the classic tradition of Kurt Lewin. This presentation will ...

Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting operation, the U.S. DOGE Service, set off a panic in March among elderly and disabled people after proposing that the Social Security Administration scrap many of its ...

Georgia is a country with a complicated modern history. Straddling East and West, this mountainous and somewhat isolated part of the Caucasus has recently endured further upheaval by the election of a ...

Elon Musk’s war on fraud and abuse has impacted the Social Security Administration’s ability to distribute payments, according to a new report. In particular, frequent outages of the agency ...

If you're receiving Social Security benefits, you've now had a couple of months to get used to your new checks since the 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) took effect in January. Under normal ...

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency say they're using their access to the Social Security Administration data not only to investigate claims of waste and fraud, but also to ...

The Social Security Administration plans to slash its technology team roughly in half at a time when the agency’s complex and fragile computer systems are crashing more often. Top executives in ...

Musk and Gracias revealed over the weekend during a get-out-the-vote rally in Wisconsin that millions of noncitizens received Social Security numbers during former President Joe Biden's tenure.

In a 2024 survey, nearly half of US teenagers said they were online almost constantly, compared with 24% a decade earlier (see ‘Constantly online’), and one-third used social-media sites such ...

In Massachusetts, about 1.2 million people recieve Social Security benefits, or about 1 in 5 people in the state. When the checks come in the mail is back in the political spotlight, as the ...