Tag: Elections
With government funding running out soon, expect more brinkmanship despite public...
Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Northwestern University
Much of the news coverage of the discussions and negotiations aimed at averting a government...
How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy
Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School and Lawrence Lessig, Harvard University
Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as...
5 elections to watch in 2023 – what’s at stake as...
Blessing-Miles Tendi, University of Oxford; Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University; Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University; Carl LeVan, American University, and Eduardo...
Near record-high numbers of young people voted during the midterms, signaling...
Abby Kiesa, Tufts University
The November 2022 midterms have come and gone, but there are still some potential lasting...
If Democrats prevail during the midterms, TV advertising might have something...
John M. Sides, Vanderbilt University
The neck-and-neck race for control of the U.S. Senate is particularly unwelcome news for...
Women make fewer political donations and risk being ignored by elected...
Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University and Claire Gothreau, Rutgers University
Candidates ignore female voters at their peril: Women have outvoted...
Competition heats up in the melting Arctic, and the US isn’t...
Rockford Weitz, Tufts University
For decades, the frozen Arctic was little more than a footnote in global economic competition,...
Faked videos shore up false beliefs about Biden’s mental health
Dustin Carnahan, Michigan State University
From Ronald Reagan in 1984 to Bob Dole in 1996 and even Hillary Clinton in 2016, candidate health has become...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
