Tag: Election

Most Americans turn on the news and hear that Joe Biden and Donald Trump keep trading the lead in the 2024 campaign for President. The story that the media keeps missing is the slow and steady rise of Cornel West. A recent McLaughlin & Associates poll found Cornel West increasing his support ...

On September 8, 2023, Nancy Pelosi confirmed her intention to seek reelection to her seat in the House of Representatives. Should she? Nancy Pelosi is 83 years old, and many would argue that her age should be a prohibitive factor in her seeking reelection, for many reasons. While I’m an all...

In the annals of history, some moments rise to the fore, capturing the attention of historians and enthusiasts alike, while others, equally pivotal, lie shrouded in the shadows of collective memory. Among these lesser-illuminated events is the forgotten election of 1519, a pivotal moment that took p...

Liberal Treasurer Matt Kean, Labor Shadow Minister Greg Warren, Greens MP Jenny Leong and Lane Cove independent candidate Victoria Davidson answered our questions on where they stand on the major issues. Our full conversations are available at these links: Greg ...

On November 7, 2023, I watched television from my home in rural Iowa, awaiting the official declaration that Yusef Salaam had won a seat representing Harlem on the New York City Council. There was no doubt Salaam would win the seat since he ran unopposed. My excitement, therefore, had nothing to do ...

The United States will hold a presidential election on November 5, 2024. As of December 2023, Ballotpedia has identified three noteworthy Democratic presidential candidates, seven noteworthy Republican candidates, and four candidates from third parties or running as independents. Democr...

We’ve got some exciting news: We’re launching a new campaign to keep the Pennsylvania Supreme Court out of MAGA hands! Most people probably haven’t heard about the November Supreme Court election, but it’s a must-win race with serious implications for abortion access and voti...

Val and Pete, Election Inspectors, District 11, one Republican and one Democrat as required by law, sat at a heavy folding table in an upstate firehouse awaiting the health aides, Walmart shift workers, and DPW guys who always lined up to vote first thing. Val, Pete, and the team of volunteers fr...

Joe Biden and Nikki Haley are running on the exact same issue. The Biden campaign released an ad that features Haley questioning Trump’s sanity, after his repetition of her name over and over again when he meant Nancy Pelosi. It’s pretty damning. This is the point where the gloves are...

Today, I want to talk about a very serious issue — county election staffs. This was prompted by the wholesale resignation of the election staff of Buckingham County, Virginia. There is now no way in that county to register to vote or register a candidacy if you wish to run for office. ...

A national news anchor said yesterday, “I’ve never encountered AI in the wild”… I said to the screen, “If you’ve looked at social media you have”. That’s the truth, every internet search and pretty much every feed you consume is crafted using artifici...

InIran, 530 people were killed and more than 22,000 arrested when young Iranians raised their fists in anger in the streets of Iran’s major cities over the death of a woman, Mahsa Amini in September 2022. Amini had been detained by Iranian religious police for improperly wearing a headscarf, o...

Generative AI is often seen as the hottest new computer technology on the market, promising to revolutionize every aspect of our lives, from entertainment, to the future of work, to the advancement and automation of healthcare services. While it remains to be seen whether such assessments are justif...

On election night 2021, Michelle Wu kicked off her victory speech, “So one of my sons asked me the other night if boys can be elected mayor in Boston.” Now that’s an opener. When our colleague Kate Childs Graham shared this speech with me, she astutely pointed out how Wu refer...

The United States will hold a presidential election on November 5, 2024. As of December 2023, Ballotpedia has identified three noteworthy Democratic presidential candidates, seven noteworthy Republican candidates, and four candidates from third parties or running as independents. Democr...

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Tulospalvelu, ²Reuters, ³Helsinki Times, ⁴Euronews and ⁵President of the Republic of Finland. Following the completion of preliminary calculations, former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb has w...

This quote is attributed to the great American humorist, Mark Twain. Whether or not he said it, it rings true. 2024 is in full swing, and I’m already exhausted. For those who aren’t political junkies, I envy you. I can’t help myself to follow when candidates drop out of th...

The PML-N’s electoral manifesto for the 2024 elections lays forth a comprehensive vision with a set of major issues targeted at tackling many aspects of Pakistan’s growth. The manifesto proposes a wide range of initiatives, from assuring inexpensive and expanded electricity to accelerati...

For most people, we are about as far away from election season as any other time in our 4-year gauntlet of family members arguing and coalescing around one of the two major political parties on facebook. About 25% of the population, however, has been paying a bit more attention, and has figured out ...

In 2019 I had just moved to Boston and was voting in my first local City Council election. I went to forums and candidate events to make sure I knew who shared my values. In Boston you vote for a district councilor and then vote for your top four choices for the four at-large city-wide seats. That y...

Based on Doublethink Lab’s previous research, reports and observation, the strategy of information manipulation in Taiwan has shifted towards conspiracy types of narrative making it more challenging to debunk. These conspiratorial narratives also further establish and reinforce cognitive bias ...

Those who have experienced an earthquake know the queasy feeling you get after even a minor tremor. Your senses don’t quite know how to handle it when the world itself begins to buck and roll. You enter into a holding pattern of pre-panic because some mechanism of self-preservation understands...

Now social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior. Thus, major political parties in India are collaborating with social media influencers to target India’s vast online population of 752 million for the upcoming 2024 general election. Hundreds of social...

Although I’m actively engaged in politics (as an advocate for election reforms and a member of the Forward Party), I’m already tired of daily news about the 2024 Presidential election. I’ll bet you are, too. The prospect of a Biden/Trump rematch is not just boring; it indicates tha...

The 24/7 talking heads are covering the November 8th election just as they always have. They look at the icing but ignore the cake. They see this as just another midterm election. They use the polls as a crutch but fail to explain what’s behind them. They miss the things that are not ...

On September 20, Canada entered a federal election called by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; lots of things happened in the campaign, but not much happened in the result — the Tories, Greens, and People’s Party maintained their seat count of 119, 2, and 0 respectively, while the Liberals ...

Since the late 1980s, political parties entered a path of decreasing trust and confidence. Many reasons contributed to this decline, with the results that, today, the decline of these organisations can be seen from many differ-ent points of observation (Ignazi 2020). One of the reasons behind this d...

He wanted to ensure that no matter what happens next, “ they told him to do it.” The reinvigorated suppression and nationalization of the economy is what “they asked for.” With the image of a powerful mandate, Putin is poised to steer Russia back to a past that many though...

As a human who lives in a society, our choices and views of the world are affected by external things. These things can come in two forms: the physical environment that we understand by analyzing it directly or using it as evidence to support our future choices and the beliefs based on social norms ...