Articles on 2016 US elections
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Why are the masses not disconnecting from Facebook despite the litany of revelations that the company’s brass has long viewed them as dumb sheep?
Do you think you’ve set up your Facebook account so that only your friends can see your information? Think again…
In a survey of 80 teens and college-aged Americans, most said they’d experienced physical or emotional distress before and after the 2016 presidential election.
Will the arrival and popularity of Oculus Go and other VR systems make us think differently about alternative realities and so-called alternative facts?
In a fight for the global flow of information, social media firms must be regulated. Their billions of dollars in revenue put their financial interests in conflict with truth and democracy.
Hostile foreign powers and even tech companies are not attacking us with bullets and bombs; they’re doing it with bits and bytes. It’s Cyber Security Awareness Month, so what to do about the third world war being waged in cyberspace?
New survey data show that Muslim Americans are the most negatively perceived religious group in the US and are often victims of Islamophobic attacks. How are they responding? By getting organized.
News consumers don’t often believe fake news. But it’s nonetheless critical that they learn to gauge the legitimacy of news sources and become aware of their own biases.
A foreign policy expert takes a look at how the high-profile exchange between the U.S. and Russian leaders went down.
Research shows that married women tend not to relate as much to other women. This makes a big difference when a woman is on the ballot.
A historian takes us beyond the noise in Washington and examines how US and Russian power and interests compare.
Did the attorney general help create a false story on why Comey was fired? Sessions’ testimony to Congress provides no answers.
Research on more than 50 government investigations reveals how partisanship can get in the way of finding answers we all agree on.
While Clinton’s popular vote win shows progress toward gender equality, her rival’s nomination of just three women to his Cabinet is a reminder of how much work still needs to be done to overcome bias in management.
At a time when politics is showing its most divisive side, a scholar argues that embracing humility could help us deal with hidden biases.














