Clinton was fighting a deep-rooted misogynist sentiment which goes back decades.
An 18th-century painting shows an indigenous woman with her Spanish husband and their child. The plaque reads: ‘From a Spaniard and an Indian is produced a mestizo.’
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In this year’s election, the system of majority voting didn’t allow voters to express their opinions adequately. If they had, the choice would have been between Kasich and Sanders.
Trump made saving U.S. manufacturing jobs, and bringing back those lost, a centerpiece of his campaign.
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Trump wouldn’t be the first occupant of the Oval Office to try to bend companies to his will to achieve an objective, be it economic or merely political. JFK tried it with U.S. Steel in 1962.
By sustained rhetorical attacks on women and minorities, Donald Trump absolved white working-class shame.
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Labor’s decline has steadily eroded the prospects of working-class Americans, fueling the backlash that propelled Trump. His election, however, will likely deliver unions a knockout punch, hurting his supporters most.
Michelle Obama with elementary school students in Washington on Oct. 6, 2015.
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Nakedness has long been employed as a gesture of defiance, highlighting the plight of the oppressed.
Sharing election hashtags: Dots are Twitter accounts; lines show retweeting; larger dots are retweeted more. Red dots are likely bots; blue ones are likely humans.
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If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children’s lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, could they also be conned out of democracy?
The grave of women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony is covered with ‘I Voted’ stickers.
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Clinton won women by 12 points and lost men by 12 – creating a 24-point ‘gender gap.’ While that’s the largest gender gap in history, the record shows that female voters were always different.
A portrait of US President-elect Donald Trump guards a residential backyard in Iowa, complete with lights and security cameras.
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The better-to-do and the established of civil and political society have become complacent and deaf to ‘those at the bottom’. The working class has gone over to the right-wing populists.
Donald Trump simultaneously ran against his own party but was supported overwhelmingly by Republican voters.
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Donald Trump’s election will affect Australia profoundly – including in the comfort it gives to those who oppose progressive policies in the name of fighting ‘political correctness’.
Did we hold Clinton to an unreasonably high standard?
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Kate Johnson, University of Southern California and Joe Hoover, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
While research has long suggested that we like others who are like us, a new study offers insight into how we choose to support those who share our views of ‘moral purity.’ It may explain how we voted.
Like wearing psychological blinders.
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It’s human nature to notice or search out information that supports what you already believe and discount or avoid data to the contrary. The problem comes in when you don’t recognize this bias is in play.
EPA personnel collect water samples along the Louisiana coast after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to decimate the Environmental Protection Agency. But a political scientist predicts that while EPA will face budget cuts, the agency isn’t going anywhere.
Where does a divided country go from here?
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University