Bring the 2020 Election into your classroom with a few authentic challenges that will push your students citizenship and build Election vocabulary across contents in this 21st Century Math Project! Students will use their skills with percents and data analysis to solve authentic election problems. I...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday blocked a House-passed bill that would authorize $775 million to beef up state election systems. GOP leaders made the case that the Trump administration has already made great strides in protecting the vote and they say no more funding is needed.
This interactive tracks the publicly known developments of the investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional committees into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether anyone from Donald Trump’s campaign was involved.
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America’s political geography follows the contours of its physical geography. The coasts are home to urban Democratic havens, while Republicans count on the vast and less densely populated areas that almost always support the ticket.
It has been a tumultuous 10 weeks since Trump's stunning victory. Here are six key findings from our U.S. political surveys since the election.
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They predicted a toss-up race all along. Why didn’t people listen?
Lawrence M. Krauss on what President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointments reveal about his Administration’s approach to science.
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President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to be his nominee for energy secretary, the transition team announced Wednesday, which would make him head of an agency he once sought to eliminate.
False claims of a Trump victory have persisted online for weeks. Multiple analyses of the election results explain why Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden.
Net neutrality, science-based policy are threatened. A maximalist IP approach looms.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in the final sprint to Election Day.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt came under fire Monday after he began cleaning house at a key scientific review board, with critics charging the agency once again is prioritizing politics over science.
Politico reports that the Republican National Committee hired a small firm to gather information potentially damaging to Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.
What does the November election shocker mean for the various theories and shibboleths floating around political science and political journalism? With...
An elegant solution to a prevailing problem.
In her new tell-all book Full Disclosure, porn star Stormy Daniels claims that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton once plotted about the 2008 election in a phone call that took place while he was in a hotel room with Daniels
The company says it was essential to President Trump's victory, but both Trump and other former clients are downplaying the role of its trademark psychological profiling.
President Donald Trump questioned the more than 1 million people around the country who marched in protest of his presidency on Saturday and criticized the...
After running a divisive campaign, Trump sounded a magnanimous note of reconciliation as he claimed victory.
Democrats played into Trump's hands, Lakoff says — and they won't win until they learn how to frame the debate
American politics can seem baffling. Psychology is here to help.
Is there hope for the future of America? Following the election of Donald Trump, such a question often evokes some extremely strong emotions from people. And even more surprising, it can turn people that are
At present, proponents of school choice have the upper hand because they are backed by some of the nation’s richest people, whose campaign donations give them an outsize voice in shaping public policy. The issue that the American public must resolve in local and state as well as national elections is whether voters will preserve and protect the public school system, or allow it to be raided and controlled by the one percent and financial elites.
Bernie Sanders won a trifecta of states on Saturday. He put up big victories in Alaska, Hawaii and Washington, after carrying Idaho and Utah earlier in the week…
John Cassidy on Trump’s abrupt firing of the F.B.I. director, James Comey, who was overseeing an investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
Election anxiety is real. Many Americans report “significant stress” due to 2016.
NPR reporters and editors annotated Monday night's debate as it happened. Read the final fact check, analysis and context here.
During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were hurting the economy. But, drawing together evidence and theory from across economics, political science, and even finance, Garett Jones says otherwise. In 10% Less Democracy, he makes the case that the richest, most democratic nations would be better off if they slightly reduced accountability to the voting public, turning up the dial on elite influence. To do this, Jones builds on three foundational lines of evidence in areas where he has personal experience. First, as a former staffer in the U.S. Senate, he saw how senators voted differently as elections grew closer. Second, as a macroeconomist, Jones knows the merits of \"independent\" central banks, which sit apart from the political process and are controlled by powerful insiders. The consensus of the field is that this detached, technocratic approach has worked far better than more political and democratic banking systems. Third, his previous research on the effects of cognitive skills on political, social, and economic systems revealed many ways in which well-informed voters improve government. Discerning repeated patterns, Jones draws out practical suggestions for fine-tuning, focusing on the length of political terms, the independence of government agencies, the weight that voting systems give to the more-educated, and the value of listening more closely to a group of farsighted stakeholders with real skin in the game--a nation's sovereign bondholders. Accessible to political news junkies while firmly rooted and rigorous, 10% Less Democracy will fuel the national conversation about what optimal government looks like.
