Tag: Elections
Germany enters political no-man’s land as Angela Merkel wrestles with election...
Daniel Hough, University of Sussex
Angela Merkel is in trouble. Serious trouble. Negotiations to form the next German government have collapsed dramatically. Quite where the...
Democrats’ sweep of Virginia shows the state is moving beyond its...
Toni-Michelle C. Travis, George Mason University
In its first election since Trump became president, Virginia gave Democrats a sweeping victory. This one-time swing state and...
Why police reforms rarely succeed: Lessons from Latin America
Yanilda González, University of Chicago
President Donald Trump’s appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has led people to speculate about the fate of recent police...
Will women vote for women in 2018? It depends on if...
Leah Ruppanner, University of Melbourne; Christopher Stout, Oregon State University, and Kelsy Kretschmer, Oregon State University
The 2018 elections promise to be the “Year of...
Most expensive race in House history turns out nearly 58 percent...
Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University
I’m a political science professor living in Georgia’s Sixth House district, where Republican Karen Handel eked out a victory of...
President Macron marches to parliamentary majority in France
Mabel Berezin, Cornell University
“Bien joué” – or “well played” – was sprawled across a picture of Emmanuel Macron on the cover of the newspaper...
How Vulnerable to Hacking is the US Election Cyber Infrastructure?
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Following the hack of Democratic National Committee emails and reports of a new cyberattack against the Democratic Congressional...
Absentee voting doesn’t increase turnout and leads to more mistakes
By Thad Hall, University of Utah
Although the midterms are typically referred to as federal elections, there is no federal entity that governs the conduct...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
