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Monkeys know who will win the election – primal instincts humans share with them shape voters’ choices

  • Written by Michael Platt, Professor of Marketing and Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
imageWould you and this rhesus macaque choose the same candidate?EcoPic/iStock via Getty Images Plus

As Election Day looms with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in a dead heat, pollsters and pundits are scrambling for clues to predict the outcome.

But what if the answer lies not in political data or campaign strategies, but in the instincts of a...

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No, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest factories, with over 23,000 jobs planned

  • Written by James Morton Turner, Professor of Environmental Studies, Wellesley College
imageWorkers install battery packs in a BMW X5 in South Carolina. A new battery plant under construction nearby will supply BMW factories.BMW

The United States is in the midst of the biggest boom in clean energy manufacturing investments in history, spurred by laws like the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act...

Read more: No, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest...

No, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest factories, with thousands of jobs planned

  • Written by James Morton Turner, Professor of Environmental Studies, Wellesley College
imageWorkers install battery packs in a BMW X5 in South Carolina. A new battery plant under construction nearby will supply BMW factories.BMW

The United States is in the midst of the biggest boom in clean energy manufacturing investments in history, spurred by laws like the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act...

Read more: No, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest...

For one survivor, the 1920 Election Day massacre in Florida was ‘the night the devil got loose’

  • Written by Jerald Podair, Professor of History, Lawrence University
imageDescendants of July Perry attend a 2019 ceremony unveiling a historical marker of his lynching. AP Photo/John Raoux

Mose Norman, a Black registered voter, was ready to cast his ballot for presidential candidate Warren G. Harding.

But when he arrived at his polling place on Election Day, Nov. 2, 1920, in the orange grove town of Ocoee, Florida,...

Read more: For one survivor, the 1920 Election Day massacre in Florida was ‘the night the devil got loose’

Elon Musk misses Philly court date, stalling ‘illegal lottery’ case against him − an expert on Philadelphia politics weighs in

  • Written by Richardson Dilworth, Professor of Politics, Drexel University
imageElon Musk is still doling out $1 million a day to contestants in swing states.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images

On Oct. 28, 2024, just over a week before Election Day, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner filed a civil lawsuit against Elon Musk to stop his US$1 million voter sweepstakes from continuing in Pennsylvania....

Read more: Elon Musk misses Philly court date, stalling ‘illegal lottery’ case against him − an expert on...

Trump’s Detroit insults are based on old narratives local media are rewriting every day

  • Written by Danielle K. Brown, Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University
imageIt's been a war of words − and T-shirt slogans − in Detroit this campaign season.Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Michigan’s swing-state status means people are talking about Detroit.

Some have been saying unpleasant things.

Addressing the Detroit Economic Club on Oct. 11, presidential candidate Donald Trump...

Read more: Trump’s Detroit insults are based on old narratives local media are rewriting every day

Denver slaughterhouse ban could affect food systems in Colorado and beyond

  • Written by Jennifer Martin, Associate Professor of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University
imageIf passed, ballot measure 309 would close Superior Farms, north of Denver. Hyoung Chang/Denver Post via Getty Images

Ballot measure 309 aims to ban slaughterhouses in the city and county of Denver. If passed, the measure would close just one facility, Superior Farms, in the Globeville neighborhood north of Denver.

I’m an associate professor of...

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Denver voters reject slaughterhouse ban, allowing Superior Farms to continue selling lamb in Colorado and nationwide

  • Written by Jennifer Martin, Associate Professor of Animal Sciences, Colorado State University
imageSuperior Farms is the largest lamb processing plant in the U.S.Hyoung Chang/Denver Post via Getty Images

Ballot measure 309, which aimed to ban slaughterhouses in the city and county of Denver, failed on Nov. 5, 2024. The measure would have closed Superior Farms in the Globeville neighborhood north of Denver.

I’m an associate professor of anima...

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International election monitors can help boost people’s trust in the electoral process − but not all work the same way

  • Written by Sarah Bush, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
imagePeople fill out their ballots during the early voting period in Cutler Bay, Fla., on Oct. 27, 2024. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

U.S. elections are free, fair and secure, research shows – but about 20% of Americans still said in a September 2024 Gallup survey that they are “not at all confident” that the presidential election results...

Read more: International election monitors can help boost people’s trust in the electoral process − but not...

Who formally declares the winner of the US presidential election?

  • Written by Amy Dacey, Executive Director of the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, American University
imageThe 2000 and 2020 presidential elections were rarities in that the winner was not declared on election night.Franklin McMahon/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

Unlike many other countries, where the president or prime minister is chosen by direct popular vote, in the United States a candidate may win the popular vote and still not be elected to the nat...

Read more: Who formally declares the winner of the US presidential election?

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  23. Why vote for Harris or Trump? A cheat sheet on the candidates’ records, why their supporters like them and why picking one or the other makes sense
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  26. Why Pennsylvania’s election results will take time to count
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