After four tumultuous years under Donald Trump, Joe Biden becomes president and pledges to advocate for unity and healing.
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Joe Biden has said he wants to create a cabinet that “looks like America.” But getting racialized people into powerful positions should be a means to tackle structural inequalities, not a goal in and of itself.
We have unwittingly volunteered our faces in social media posts and photos stored in the cloud. But we’ve yet to determine who owns the data associated with the contours of our faces.
Despite moments of hope, worries about the present and fears that the future may be even worse have been rising for decades. What can geopolitics teach us about the global impact of fear?
The debate about the U.S. Electoral College pits those who think the president should be chosen via popular vote versus those who believe the interests of small and large states must be balanced.
An international volunteer team of marketing, branding, graphic design and media experts collaborated to position Vote From Abroad as a destination for out-of-country American voters.
What happens over the next four years in Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration could have a lasting impact on how childhood is understood and experienced in the United States and beyond.
What did all those weird tattoos mean?
As the raid on the U.S. Capitol has shown, some kinds of rhetoric can set fire to the world — and it exists in Canada, too. Here’s how to tamp it down and focus on positive forms of rhetoric.
What can Biden’s picks for his cabinet tell us about his administration?
Donald Trump has failed to understand that the constitutional separation of powers in the United States is its source of strength, not weakness.
Twitter has permanently suspended the account of the U.S. president, saying Donald Trump’s tweets glorified the violence of the siege on the Capitol.
Rather than denigrating other nations as banana republics for their penchant for insurrections and lawless coups, the United States needs to take a long look inward following the raid on the Capitol.
When supporters of Donald Trump stormed into the US Capitol in Washington, it wasn’t the first time this had happened. The last time was during a British invasion in 1814.
The attack on the U.S. Capitol follows some familiar patterns of violence inspired by politicians around the world who won’t accept electoral defeats.
The first amendment could not have anticipated the rise of digital media which has profoundly changed the nature of public speech.
After blazing an unprecedented post-election path of inciting violence, Donald Trump’s path forward contains some potential landmines.
U.S. citizens and lawmakers failed to account for the threat to democracy that resulted in the storming of the Capitol. This reflects a denial of the series of events that led to this moment.
Vice President Pence could invoke the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, also known as the Disability Clause, if he believes Trump is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.’
Donald Trump’s tenure as president reveals how pathologies are part of what Americans see as their “exceptionalism.”
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor Emeritus of Communication, American University School of Communication
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Clarkson University
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations, United States Studies Centre,, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
