The vice president has said he looks forward to meeting the framers of the Constitution in heaven. That is not the mindset of someone with short-term vision.
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The message of Eva Orner’s new documentary is spot on, the logic of its argument faultless. But it tells us things more than it makes us feel things, and this is seldom beneficial in the medium.
The vice president may be second in line for the most powerful job in the nation, but there isn’t necessarily a lot to do besides wait – unless the president wants another adviser.
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.
James Baker, the high-powered lawyer chosen by George W. Bush to lead his fight over the contested 2000 election, delivered victory. A new book reveals three crucial reasons why.
Five of the six disputed presidential elections in US history were resolved and the country moved on – but one ended in civil war. What will happen if the 2020 election is contested?
The elections of 1876, 1888, 1960 and 2000 were among the most contentious in American history.
For the winner, it’s the achievement of a lifetime. For the loser, not so much.
Presidential pollsters in the US have had some embarrassing failures. Here’s a catalog of those miscalls, from the scholar who literally wrote the book on them.
Five of the six contested presidential elections in U.S. history were resolved and the country moved on – one ended in civil war. What will happen if the upcoming election is contested?
When the electoral process was helped along by practices that either were or appeared to be underhanded, the resulting wounds took a long time to heal – and may not ever have healed.
China has embraced the concept of Digital Earth – the use of data from satellites to create a visual map of what’s happening at every point on the planet – and is now a key player in making it happen.
‘Two polar bears walk into a bar …’ is an unlikely opener for a joke, but memes and parodies are surprisingly effective ways to get people talking about climate change.
As the US prepares to replace NAFTA, a labor scholar who was critical of Perot but shared concerns about the deal revisits the claim that helped him become the most successful third-party candidate since Teddy Roosevelt.
There’s no precedent for selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a time when there’s no market-driven reason for doing that.
Have you ever struggled to understand exactly what to do inside a voting booth?
Climate scientists often bombard their audiences with facts and figures - a method of communication that often doesn’t work. Perhaps this is where cli-fi can step in, with its compelling characters and just slightly embellished science.
Eleven years after its release, An Inconvenient Truth, the iconic climate documentary, has spawned a sequel. But did the original do more harm than good by polarizing Americans on climate change?
Taking inspiration from the spread of world religions, Quentin Atkinson and Shaun Hendy argue scientists need to do more to signal commitment to ideas they want to spread.
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth woke up the world to climate change. But with its sequel hitting cinemas now, it’s not clear that ‘big issue’ documentaries make a difference in the long term.
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Directeur de recherche de classe exceptionnelle (emeritus) of the C.N.R.S., École polytechnique
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie Campus, Penn State
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Associate Lecturer in Screenwriting and Television Studies, Falmouth University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clarkson University
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Research Assistant Professor, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University
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Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Investigator on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Professor of Communication, Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University
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Visiting Scholar, University of Kent
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Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Research Fellow in the politics of industrial decarbonisation policy, University of Sussex
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Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
