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5 types of misinformation to watch out for while ballots are being counted – and after

With no clear winner yet in the presidential election, there’s an opportunity for partisan activists, conspiracy theorists and others to …

How to read U.S. election maps as votes are being counted

  Where were the best electoral maps to be found during the 2020 U.S. presidential election? (Clay Banks/Unsplash) As the …

To stay or cut away? As Trump makes baseless claims, TV networks are faced with a serious dilemma

In the United States, democratic norms are breaking down. The president, Donald Trump, baselessly claimed at a White House press …

Congress could select the president in a disputed election

President Donald Trump’s campaign is challenging results of battleground states with lawsuits, hoping to litigate its way to a win …

Trump’s Pennsylvania lawsuits invoke Bush v. Gore – but the Supreme Court probably won’t decide the 2020 election

The Trump campaign has filed two lawsuits in federal court over ballot counting and voting deadlines in Pennsylvania, threatening to …

COVID-19 drug and vaccine patents are putting profit before people

The TRIPS waiver enables WTO member states to manufacture and distribute COVID-19 drugs and medical supplies that would normally be …

Police and politics have been dangerously intertwined during the 2020 U.S. presidential election

American police have been inserted into the 2020 presidential elections in ways arguably unseen since the 1960s. Three days before …

More women and more Black women than ever ran for Congress in 2020, but they still lost ground

In 2020, Black women set a new record – 117 entered primaries for the House and 13 for the U.S. …

History tells us that a contested election won’t destroy American democracy

With the outcome of the 2020 presidential election still hanging on the uncounted votes in a handful of battleground states, …

Who invented the Electoral College?

A transcript from the Constitutional Convention records the official report creating the Electoral College. U.S. National Archives, CC BY-NC-ND The …

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