In 2026, protests and riots occurred across Germany over cost-of-living concerns and a proposal for mandatory military service

Broad domain encompassing the study of human communities, social structures, institutions, and collective behaviours, including how people organise, govern, and relate to one another across cultures and time periods

Household prices for food, housing, energy, healthcare and other everyday necessities, and the economic policies blamed or credited for them. Central to how American voters judge an administration, and argued through inflation, wages, interest rates, tariffs and gasoline prices.