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How votes are counted in Pennsylvania: Changing numbers are a sign of transparency, not fraud, during an ongoing process

  • Written by Kristin Kanthak, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
imageElection officials counting ballots at the Allegheny County elections warehouse Friday in Pittsburgh. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

Last week I was grading an online exam for my students. We’re working with a new learning management system at my university and I didn’t realize my students could actually see their grades moving up and down...

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Has Donald Trump had his Joe McCarthy moment?

  • Written by Chris Lamb, Professor of Journalism, IUPUI
imageThe moment Lester Holt of NBC News cut into a statement from President Donald Trump.NBC News via YouTube

When CBS, NBC and ABC cut away from President Donald Trump’s news conference at the White House on the evening of Nov. 5, they took pains to explain why they were shutting off the nation’s commander-in-chief.

It was a moment that for...

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Job policies that offer generous unemployment benefits create more happiness – for everyone

  • Written by Robson Hiroshi Hatsukami Morgan, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Minerva Schools at KGI
imageTurn that frown upside down.shaunl/iStock via Getty Images

Losing one’s job undoubtedly makes someone less happy, a feeling tens of millions of people around the world are experiencing right now. Even as the labor market recovers, as we saw in the latest U.S. employment report on Nov. 6, the number of people who have been without a job for...

Read more: Job policies that offer generous unemployment benefits create more happiness – for everyone

A skin-eating fungus from Europe could decimate Appalachia's salamanders – but researchers are working to prevent an outbreak

  • Written by Debra Miller, Professor, University of Tennessee
imageThe red salamander (_Pseudotriton ruber_) is a species endemic to the United StatesBetty4240/iStock via Getty Images

The Southern Appalachian mountains are a global biodiversity hot spot for salamanders. Dr. Deb Miller and Dr. Matt Gray lead the Amphibian Disease Laboratory at the University of Tennessee and are looking at various strategies to...

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Keep calm and carry on – but how? A psychologist offers 10 tips to manage the uncertainty and stress of election aftermath

  • Written by Bethany Teachman, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
imageDoomscrolling is not going to help.ArtistGNDphotography/E+ via Getty Images

Well-meaning advice for people freaking out about current events often includes encouragement to be patient, stay calm and keep the faith… but how on Earth are you supposed to do that amid the insanity of 2020?

As a practicing clinical psychologist and professor who...

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COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetime

  • Written by Cate Varney, Clinician Physician, University of Virginia
imageA COVID-19 patient is connected to life-sustaining devices at Mount Sinai South Nassau Hospital in Oceanside, New York on April 14, 2020. Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the obesity epidemic once again into the spotlight, revealing that obesity is no longer a disease that harms just in the long run but one...

Read more: COVID-19 reveals how obesity harms the body in real time, not just over a lifetime

Delinquent electric bills from the pandemic are coming due – who will pay them?

  • Written by Theodore J. Kury, Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
imageWho picks up the bill when customers can't pay?iStock / Getty Images Plus

The shutdowns and restrictions that governments have imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19 have made it hard for many households to afford basic needs. Thousands of Americans are struggling to pay monthly utility bills.

Utilities and policymakers recognized that services...

Read more: Delinquent electric bills from the pandemic are coming due – who will pay them?

How Reagan's notions of a 'good society' resonate with Trump supporters today

  • Written by Diane Winston, Associate Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
imageRonald Reagan with his Democratic challenger Walter Mondale soon after a debate in 1984.AP Photo

If a ballooning federal deficit, tax breaks for the wealthy, rising income inequality, structural racism and cowboy diplomacy sound familiar, it’s because they were big issues in the 2020 presidential race.

But they’re not new. They also...

Read more: How Reagan's notions of a 'good society' resonate with Trump supporters today

Remote education is rife with threats to student privacy

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
imageStudents are being forced to disclose sensitive information online. urbazon/Getty Images

An online “proctor” who can survey a student’s home and manipulate the mouse on their computer as the student takes an exam. A remote-learning platform that takes face scans and voiceprints of students. Virtual classrooms where strangers can po...

Read more: Remote education is rife with threats to student privacy

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  1. 5 types of misinformation to watch out for while ballots are being counted – and after
  2. Congress could select the president in a disputed election
  3. Trump's Pennsylvania lawsuits invoke Bush v. Gore – but the Supreme Court probably won't decide the 2020 election
  4. 3 scholars explain Senate results in South Carolina, Iowa and Arizona - and what they say about voters
  5. A disputed election delivered 3 governors to Georgia – at the same time
  6. Post-election grief is real, and here are 5 coping strategies – including getting back into politics
  7. Although now required by California law, ethnic studies courses likely to be met with resistance
  8. California voters decide Uber and Lyft drivers are 'contractors' as gig workers continue search for a livable wage
  9. The International Space Station at 20 offers hope and a template for future cooperation
  10. Even if you're asymptomatic, COVID-19 can harm your heart, study shows – here's what student athletes need to know
  11. An embarrassing failure for election pollsters
  12. History tells us that a contested election won't destroy American democracy
  13. Who invented the Electoral College?
  14. 'Rainbow wave' of LGBTQ candidates run and win in 2020 election
  15. A Q A with a historian of presidential polls
  16. 'Wait and see' is an unsatisfying – but accurate – way to present election results
  17. A history of contested presidential elections, from Samuel Tilden to Al Gore
  18. Election night has been a big media event since electric lights first announced the winner in 1892
  19. Death rates have fallen by 18% for hospitalized COVID–19 patients as treatments improve
  20. In supporting same-sex civil unions, Pope Francis is showing how the Catholic definition of what constitutes a family is changing
  21. Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes – and they bragged about it
  22. Poor US pandemic response will reverberate in health care politics for years, health scholars warn
  23. In supporting civil unions for same sex couples, Pope Francis is moving Catholics toward a more expansive understanding of family
  24. How schools can reduce parents' anxiety during the pandemic
  25. Magnetism of Himalayan rocks reveals the mountains' complex tectonic history
  26. Feeling disoriented by the election, pandemic and everything else? It's called 'zozobra,' and Mexican philosophers have some advice
  27. The pitfalls of hospitals seeking donations from their rich patients
  28. Why questions (good and bad) matter
  29. Why graduates of elite universities dominate the Time 100 – and what it means for the rest of us
  30. On screen and on stage, disability continues to be depicted in outdated, cliched ways
  31. How tech firms have tried to stop disinformation and voter intimidation – and come up short
  32. A few heavy storms cause a big chunk of nitrogen pollution from Midwest farms
  33. What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy of happiness
  34. What it's like to lose a presidential election
  35. You have rights when you go to vote - and many people are there to help if there's trouble at the polls
  36. You have rights when you go to vote – and many people are there to help if there's trouble at the polls
  37. The scariest things in the universe are black holes – and here are 3 reasons
  38. 100 years ago, the first commercial radio broadcast announced the results of the 1920 election – politics would never be the same
  39. Cahokian culture spread across eastern North America 1,000 years ago in an early example of diaspora
  40. How to be a good digital citizen during the election – and its aftermath
  41. From Trump to Trudeau, the escalator is a favorite symbol of political campaigns
  42. 5 reasons not to underestimate far-right extremists
  43. Why there's so much legal uncertainty about resolving a disputed presidential election
  44. Most surprising thing about a new report showing climate change imperils the US financial system is that the report even exists
  45. Studies link COVID-19 deaths to air pollution, raising questions about EPA's 'acceptable risk'
  46. Why scientists and public health officials need to address vaccine mistrust instead of dismissing it
  47. The Black Church has been getting 'souls to the polls' for more than 60 years
  48. Is tax avoidance ethical? Asking for a friend
  49. Ransomware can interfere with elections and fuel disinformation – basic cybersecurity precautions are key to minimizing the damage
  50. The US economy's record swings: 4 essential reads