Natural disasters create practical challenges for voters and election administrators. But in some cases, voters can also…
Voters may shake it off when celebrities endorse presidential candidates – but sometimes it makes the politicians look…
Over the past 100 years, US politicians have used racist tropes to stoke white fears of being powerless.
In 2020,the #StopTheSteal movement built over months of false claims of fraud, culminating in the violence of Jan. 6, 2021.…
Candidates use psychological strategies to win support and to cast their rivals in a negative light. In projection, people…
Have they expanded or restricted rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people? A scholar of the LGBTQ community examines…
They aren’t just operating boats and helicopters. Others serve as dispatchers, handle logistics, and run social media…
Americans are being targeted with an unprecedented number of political attack ads this election season, and research shows…
Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s…
If you’re an unhappy voter and want other unhappy voters to hold their noses and vote for the major candidate they least…
The rapidly changing social conditions in Ohio have played a significant role in the growth of extremism as some alienated…
Social media platforms, the modern public squares, are being manipulated by foreign influence campaigns. AI makes those…
Montanans used to split tickets, voting for Democrats and Republicans. Growing partisanship looks likely to kill that tradition,…
The New York Times, dismayed by wayward polls in the 1952 presidential race, sent teams of reporters across the country…
In order to effectively appeal to voters with a shared identity, Kamala Harris and other politicians would need to show…
For decades, presidential candidates from both major parties have committed to cleaning up and protecting the Great Lakes.…
The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational…
Harris’ support for abortion rights and political unity – as well as the fact that she offers an antidote to Donald…
Despite a recent push to reconcile Palestinian political parties and work toward elections, Palestinians are no nearer to…
A year on from the Hamas attacks and Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza, new fronts of fighting are creating another…