Politics
The topics this product tracks, the most attention first. Attention is measured against each topic’s own history — 50 is its usual level — so a high figure means unusually busy for that topic, not the most-discussed topic in the world.
Ordered by each topic’s current Attention figure: 0–100 against that topic’s own recent history, with 50 its usual level. Topics with no figure yet are listed last, A–Z. How attention is measured.
- Sanctions on Russia43Attentionbelow usual · −8.3 ptsdown over 24 hoursWestern sanctions on Russia — sanctions packages, the oil price cap, frozen assets and the shadow fleet.
- Thailand43Attentionbelow usual · −18.7 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Guatemala43Attentionbelow usual · −13.9 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Libya43Attentionbelow usual · −21.0 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Iraq42Attentionbelow usual · −14.3 ptsdown over 24 hours
- The death penalty42Attentionbelow usual · −21.0 ptsdown over 24 hoursExecutions, death-row cases and capital-punishment law.
- Data privacy40Attentionbelow usual · −5.5 ptsdown over 24 hoursData-protection law, privacy regulators and the fines they levy.
- France40Attentionbelow usual · +5.3 ptsup over 24 hours
- Iceland40Attentionbelow usual · −7.7 ptsdown over 24 hoursIcelandic politics, economy and volcanic activity.
- Wales39Attentionbelow usual · ±0.2 ptsunchanged over 24 hoursWelsh politics, the Senedd and devolution.
- Germany39Attentionbelow usual · −5.1 ptsdown over 24 hours
- New York City39Attentionbelow usual · −10.1 ptsdown over 24 hoursCity politics, the mayor's office and the city's government.
- Ukraine39Attentionbelow usual · −1.8 ptsdown over 24 hours
- AI regulation39Attentionbelow usual · −7.3 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Jordan39Attentionbelow usual · −6.0 ptsdown over 24 hours
- National elections worldwide39Attentionbelow usual · −1.4 ptsdown over 24 hoursElection mechanics anywhere — the topic that catches a contest whose country has no topic here.
- Saudi Arabia38Attentionbelow usual · −4.6 ptsdown over 24 hours
- Protests and civil unrest36Attentionbelow usual · −1.0 ptsdown over 24 hoursMass protests, riots and street demonstrations anywhere in the world.
- Egypt36Attentionbelow usual · −9.2 ptsdown over 24 hours
- US education policy35Attentionbelow usual · −21.6 ptsdown over 24 hoursStudent loans, the Department of Education, and federal school policy.