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How to read your social media feeds on Election Day
Associated Press

How to read your social media feeds on Election Day

Dean John L. Jackson, Jr. of the Annenberg School for Communication says that the internet’s ability to create and spread evidence from scratch necessitates better evaluation of information.

Voter suppression is keeping students from the polls
The Nation

Voter suppression is keeping students from the polls

Third-year Mira Sydow in the College of Arts and Sciences writes about college organizers’ fight for ballot access in battleground states across the nation.

Higher education’s role in democracy
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(Homepage image) In last spring’s How Washington Really Works seminar, guest speaker Liz Fowler (center) gives students her insider view on helping write the Affordable Care Act as George Mason Professor Steven Pearlstein, (left), and Penn Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel (right) listen.

Higher education’s role in democracy

Experts from across the University share their thoughts on how their research, departments, and centers help foster democracy.

Kristen de Groot

Climate questions: Does what I do matter?
Associated Press

Climate questions: Does what I do matter?

Michael E. Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that individual citizens should minimize their carbon footprints but that true change can only be enacted at the systemic level with pressure on policymakers.

Voters everywhere are talking about the same issues. Here’s why that matters
NPR

Voters everywhere are talking about the same issues. Here’s why that matters

Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences says that our current highly nationalized political system drives voters to focus on symbolic, emotionally fraught, easily accessible issues that resonate throughout the country.