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Q A with Yale scholar: How the FBI has meddled in politics before

  • Written by Brian Balogh, Compton Professor at the Miller Center and the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia

FBI interference in U.S. elections is nothing new.

Last week, FBI Director James Comey reopened an investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state. On Sunday, Comey announced the investigation was complete, and that there was no evidence that warranted charging Clinton with a crime. His actions set off a...

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Voters in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida are changing the swing state map

  • Written by James Henson, Director of the Texas Politics Project, University of Texas at Austin

As final predictions roll in before Election Day, everyone is looking to see who will win important swing states. Candidates work harder to win over voters in states like Ohio and Florida, because their voting behavior is less predictable. But this year, the map has shifted in unexpected ways.

We asked four of our experts to weigh in on why, and...

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Libertarian economics: A philosophical critique

  • Written by Peter Lindsay, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University

The focus of my research as a political philosopher is on matters of economic justice. I ask questions such as: Are markets consistent with justice? Is freedom enhanced through economic exchange? If so, why, and if not, why not?

One position that I have held for most of my career is that free market, or libertarian, thinking suffers from major...

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Civility at the core of American democracy, whatever politicians say

  • Written by Eduardo Mendieta, Professor of Philosophy, Acting Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, and Affiliate Professor in the School of International Affairs, Pennsylvania State University

Exceptions prove the rule. Extremes reveal what is indispensable.

The phenomenon “Trump” is both an exception and an extreme: His brand of politics proves and reveals just how important democratic civility is to a vibrant democracy.

As a philosopher who looks at the the ways in which emotions impact political freedom, I am interested...

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Climate change could be a unifying cause of millennials, but will they vote?

  • Written by Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University
imageTalking 'bout my generation: Younger people are concerned with climate, but how engaged are they politically?Joe Brusky/flickr, CC BY-NC

When Secretary Hillary Clinton sought to mobilize millennial voters, she held a rally with Al Gore in Florida and focused heavily on climate change.

On one level, this is a curious move. Al Gore’s...

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In Trump, extremism found its champion – and maybe its demise

  • Written by Adam G. Klein, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Pace University

Political correctness was one of Donald Trump’s earliest targets in his presidential campaign. From the onset, his massive crowds cheered whenever he would defiantly declare, “I’m so tired of this politically correct crap.” He often went on “straight talk” discourses spouting his beliefs about “real”...

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Violence has long been a feature of American elections

  • Written by Jesse Rhodes, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The 2016 American presidential campaign has renewed concerns about the specter of violence in American electoral politics. The campaign has been marked by tense – and occasionally violent – altercations between supporters and critics of Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Trump encouraged his supporters to “knock the crap” out...

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How to deal with election anger? Try a little tenderness

  • Written by Laurel Mellin, Associate Clinical Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
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As we move closer to Election Day, many of us are breathing a sigh of relief, but there is another mood percolating. Many of us feel anger, a deep, fire in the belly anger that it has come to this. We may feel like caged lions, spitting mad, but told to quiet down, be civil and...

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What can the mass 'check-in' at Standing Rock tell us about online advocacy?

  • Written by Leshu Torchin, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of St Andrews

On Oct. 31, more than a million Facebook users “checked in” at Standing Rock Reservation, on the border between North and South Dakota. Since last March, the Standing Rock Sioux and other tribal communities and activists have been blocking the construction of a crude oil pipeline, which threatens sacred sites and the tribe’s...

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Understanding the genes that make our circadian clocks tick

  • Written by Giles E. Duffield, Associate Professor in Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame
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Have you ever wondered why you don’t feel tired until late at night but your spouse is fast asleep at 10 p.m. and wakes spontaneously at 6 a.m.?

We each have an internal biological clock, called a circadian clock, that organizes the internal and external activities of our body around...

Read more: Understanding the genes that make our circadian clocks tick

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