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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...

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5 types of misinformation to watch out for while ballots are being counted – and after

  • Written by Kate Starbird, Associate Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
imageMail-in and absentee ballots, like these being processed by election workers in Pennsylvania, are a subject of misinformation spreading across social media.AP Photo/Matt Slocum

With no clear winner yet in the presidential election, there’s an opportunity for partisan activists, conspiracy theorists and others to exploit public uncertainty and...

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Congress could select the president in a disputed election

  • Written by Donald Brand, Professor, College of the Holy Cross
imageIf the House of Representatives selects the president, each state would get a single vote – not one vote per House member. iStock/Getty

President Donald Trump’s campaign is challenging results of battleground states with lawsuits, hoping to litigate its way to a win in the 2020 election. But the Founding Fathers meant for Congress...

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Trump's Pennsylvania lawsuits invoke Bush v. Gore – but the Supreme Court probably won't decide the 2020 election

  • Written by Steven Mulroy, Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
imageJudges can intervene in elections, but the Supreme Court really prefers not to.Jantanee Phoolmas/Moment via Getty Images

The Trump campaign has filed two lawsuits in federal court over ballot counting and voting deadlines in Pennsylvania, threatening to take the election to the Supreme Court. Both consciously echo the two main legal theories of Bush...

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3 scholars explain Senate results in South Carolina, Iowa and Arizona - and what they say about voters

  • Written by Paul Lasley, Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University
imageDemocrats needed to net three seats to win control of the Senate.L. Toshio Kishiyama/Getty Images

The past few election cycles have seen notable geographical shifts in voting. Rural voters – already a bedrock of GOP support – have supported the party by wider margins. The 2018 midterms, meanwhile, showed the suburbs increasingly turning...

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A disputed election delivered 3 governors to Georgia – at the same time

  • Written by John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
imageWith three claimants, which one should hold the governor's seat?Lisa-Blue via Getty Images

As election results continue to come in around the country, it’s worth recalling that once, the state of Georgia found itself with a dead governor-elect – and three politicians who each insisted he was the real governor.

It’s a story I had...

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Post-election grief is real, and here are 5 coping strategies – including getting back into politics

  • Written by Christopher Ojeda, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee

Shortly after Abraham Lincoln was elected on Nov. 6, 1860, a woman from Alabama, Sarah Espy, documented her concerns in her diary. She wrote that she felt “grieved,” and explained why. “For it is thought now to be certainty that Lincoln…and that the Southern States are going to withdraw from the Union. If so, it is the...

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Although now required by California law, ethnic studies courses likely to be met with resistance

  • Written by Nolan L. Cabrera, Associate Professor of Education, University of Arizona
imageSally Chen, an organizer with the Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition, speaks through a megaphone during a rally with other students in 2019.David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

In August 2020, California passed a law that requires college students in the state university system to take an ethnic studies course in order to graduate. In...

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California voters decide Uber and Lyft drivers are 'contractors' as gig workers continue search for a livable wage

  • Written by Juliet B. Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College
imageProposition 22 reverses a 2019 state law.AP Photo/Richard Vogel

Uber, TaskRabbit and other ride-hailing and delivery service companies in California can keep classifying their workers as independent contractors rather than employees after California voters approved a measure known as Proposition 22, according to the state’s still-unofficial...

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The International Space Station at 20 offers hope and a template for future cooperation

  • Written by Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
imageA STS-134 crew member on the space shuttle Endeavour took this photo of the ISS after the station and shuttle began their separation.NASA

On Nov. 2, 2020, the International Space Station celebrated its 20th anniversary of continuous human occupation. With astronauts and cosmonauts from around the world working together, the ISS has demonstrated...

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  14. In supporting civil unions for same sex couples, Pope Francis is moving Catholics toward a more expansive understanding of family
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