Making each vote count

MIT PhD candidate Jacob Jaffe uses data science to identify and solve problems in election administration.

Leda Zimmerman | Department of Political Science • mit
Sept. 30, 2022 • ~8 min

Indigenous defenders stand between illegal roads and survival of the Amazon rainforest – Brazil's runoff election could be a turning point

Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. The results of the 2022 presidential runoff could have a major impact for the future.

David S. Salisbury, Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond • conversation
Sept. 29, 2022 • ~13 min

Indigenous defenders stand between illegal roads and survival of the Amazon rainforest – elections in Brazil and Peru could be a turning point

Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. Indigenous territory in many areas has blocked them.

David S. Salisbury, Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond • conversation
Sept. 29, 2022 • ~12 min

Surgical procedures haven’t recovered from COVID

Reductions in surgical procedures precipitated by SARS-CoV-2 have not fully returned to their pre-pandemic levels, resulting in severe backlogs and deferred surgeries.

Tracy Hampton • harvard
Aug. 23, 2022 • ~5 min

Official Declares Ruto Kenya’s President but Questions Remain
VOA Learning English • voa
Aug. 15, 2022 • ~5 min

Don't be too quick to blame social media for America's polarization – cable news has a bigger effect, study finds

Studies of online echo chambers don’t paint the full picture of Americans’ political segregation. New research shows that the problem is more Fox News Channel and MSNBC than Facebook and Twitter.

Homa Hosseinmardi, Associate Research Scientist in Computational Social Science, University of Pennsylvania • conversation
Aug. 10, 2022 • ~7 min

Just anticipating election stress can affect your well-being

Just anticipating election-related stress can take a toll on well-being even before anything happens. But education can offer some protection.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
June 1, 2022 • ~8 min

Politics may have influenced use of ineffective COVID drugs

Across the U.S., prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin increased in the latter part of 2020, most significantly in counties with the highest share of people voting Republican.

Karen Feldscher • harvard
Feb. 18, 2022 • ~3 min

Where legal, voting by those in prison is rare, study shows

The findings suggest voting by incarcerated people is unlikely to affect electoral outcomes, in contrast to some assumptions.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 25, 2022 • ~6 min

Survey: Just 27% of Republican voters think Biden is really president

A year after the 2020 US presidential election, a large majority of Republican voters still refuses to acknowledge that President Biden won.

Sandra Knispel-U. Rochester • futurity
Dec. 30, 2021 • ~4 min

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