Jared Bahir Browsh, Assistant Teaching Professor of Critical Sports Studies, University of Colorado Boulder The Pac-12 is likely to be competing in its last March Madness, as realignment has pushed 10 of its schools to other conferences. What led the most decorated conference…
Regina Bateson, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa When Americans vote this fall, the candidates on their ballots will not reflect the diversity of the United States. Despite recent gains, women and people of…
So-called ‘Latino vote’ is 32 million Americans with diverse political opinions and national origins
Lisa García Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley Pundits are expressing surprise that so many Latinos voted for Donald Trump. But pollsters who specialize in the Latino vote knew for months before the…
Regina Smyth, Indiana University and Sarah Oates, University of Maryland The 2020 election, in which Joe Biden is the projected winner, is not what a rigged election looks like. Rigged elections are…
Last week, voters and election administrators who emailed Leanne Jackson, the clerk of rural Hamilton County in central Texas, received bureaucratic-looking replies. “Re: official precinct results,” one subject line read. The text…
The following post was written by Rachel Wong and originally published on Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on November 6, 2020. This edited version is published under a content partnership agreement with Hong Kong…
W. Joseph Campbell, American University School of Communication Polling is hardly a flamboyant field that attracts a lot of colorful characters. It is a rather reserved profession that now finds itself under…
Donald Brand, College of the Holy Cross President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign is difficult results of battleground states with lawsuits, hoping to litigate its way to a win in the 2020 election.…
Steven Mulroy, University of Memphis The Trump marketing campaign has filed two lawsuits in federal court over ballot counting and voting deadlines in Pennsylvania, threatening to take the election to the Supreme…
Timothy R. Bussey, Kenyon College More LGBTQ candidates ran for workplace in the United States in 2020 than ever earlier than – at least 1,006. That’s a 41% improve over the 2018…
Sharon Austin, University of Florida In 2020, Black women set a new record – 117 entered primaries for the House and 13 for the U.S. Senate, in keeping with the Center for…