Welcome to the 2024 campaign season. If Donald Trump really believes the last election was stolen and the election didn’t work, then why is he going through the trouble of going through another election? If I take my car through a carwash and it comes …
How the news media – long in thrall to Trump – can cover his new run for president responsibly
Members of the media prepare for Donald Trump’s announcement that he is running for president in 2024.AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School Now that he’s in the 2024 presidential race, the media circus that is Donald Tr…
KNOWING
When someone needs help, most people want to reach out and offer assistance. This might be through actions, such as making a casserole or sending flowers. Others, like my mother, believe prayer makes a difference. When I was a child, every time an ambu…
Murdock Media to Trump: Drop Dead With a Vengeance
It has been no big scecret that conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch doesn’t like Donald Trump. It came to a head in 2016 when then-candidate-for-the-Republican nomination Trump boycotted a Fox News debate. But in the end Murdoch, knowing Trump mean…
Voters largely reject election deniers as secretaries of state – but the partisan battle for election administration will continue
Jim Marchant, Republican candidate for Nevada secretary of state, arrives at a rally in Henderson on Nov. 6, 2022.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Thom Reilly, Arizona State University Midterm voters in six states – Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnes…
Mid term elections: Americans not ready to (yet) alter democracy (Includes Twitter roundup)
American voters have spoken. They aren’t ready to get rid of the traditional American political phonebooth just yet. Truth about who won the last Presidential election matters. The youth vote and young activists getting out the vote matter. Abortion ma…
What’s at stake this Election Day – 7 essential reads
People volunteer at a Native Alaskan voting station on Nov. 2, 2022 in Anchorage.Spencer Platt/Getty Images Amy Lieberman, The Conversation As Election Day closes in, uncertainty and concern about potential chaos – from violence at polling sites to can…
Conservative US Supreme Court reconsidering affirmative action, leaving the use of race in college admissions on the brink of extinction
The U.S. Supreme Court in its official portrait on Oct. 7, 2022.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Travis Knoll, University of North Carolina – Charlotte The U.S. military learned a valuable lesson about race during the Vietnam War: Diversity does n…
Abortion is not influencing most voters as the midterms approach – economic issues are predominating in new survey
Amy Cox, a Democratic candidate running to be an Ohio state representative, speaks with a potential voter on Oct. 23, 2022.Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images Matthew A Baum, Harvard Kennedy School; Alauna Safarpour, Harvard Kennedy School; Jonathan Sc…
American voters are angry – that is a good thing for voter turnout, bad thing for democracy
Thousands of demonstrators gather in Washington, D.C., to support women’s rights on Oct. 8, 2022.Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images Steven Webster, Indiana University Regardless of whether they live in a red state or a blue state, identify as Democra…