Trump Campaign Gasps for Air But Forgets It is Still Underwater
In the days leading up to the official certification of the results of the November election next month, the Trump campaign has been receiving attention for its efforts to challenge the legitimacy of the vote count in enough states that could overturn the results of the election.
A Summary of the 2020 Presidential Election
The 2020 Presidential election has certainly been one for the history books. With a raging pandemic and a highly divided nation to set the stage, the path to 270 has been convoluted and drawn out to no end. Although Joe Biden has been decisively declared Presidential-elect, with his running mate Kamala Harris as Vice-Presidential elect, many Americans still feel uncertain about the results as President Donald Trump has not yet conceded.
Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Countersued by One of the Officers Involved in Her Death
By Maler Suresh
On March 13 of this year, Breonna Taylor, a Black emergency room technician, was fatally shot and killed by police officers in...
COVID-19 U.S. Spike Breaks Daily Record
By Eileen Wang
On Friday, October 30th, The United States recorded more than 99,000 Covid-19 cases, the largest number of cases recorded in a single...
The 2020 Election is Here: It Could Be Here For A While
By Philip Baillargeon
A lot can happen in four years. Arguably, much more will happen in the next four years. The timeline is shrinking...
Hurricane Zeta Causes Chaos Along the Gulf Coast
by Allison Li
Hurricane Zeta, a Category 2 storm, is the 27th-named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season and the strongest hurricane to ever...
The 2020 Election is Here: It Could Be Here For A While
Source: ABC News, This Map was Generated Using FiveThirtyEight’s Projection as of November 1st, 2020
By Philip Baillargeon
A lot can happen in four years. Arguably,...
Trump Ignores Indigenous Americans In His Columbus Day Proclamation
On the ninth of October, President Trump released a proclamation about Columbus Day that retells the idyllic creation myth of the United States, starring Christopher Columbus and the settlers that “tamed the wilderness” and built the foundation of our country. The diverse and sophisticated Indigenous societies that inhabited this “wilderness” were not mentioned once, and neither was the genocide Columbus and later figures waged against them.
The State of the Election
As of October 17th, there are 16 days to go until Americans finalize their votes in arguably the most important election in 160 years. So, how do things look right now?
Mailing it In: The State of Fighting Election Misinformation on Social Media
In the aftermath of the 2016 election and through the impeachment of President Trump (which seems like a lifetime ago but took place shortly after this year began), foreign interference and misinformation campaigns were the main topic of concern ahead of the 2020 election. While coronavirus may take that mantle this year, election misinformation is incredibly harmful to our democratic institutions and it hasn’t gone away for the time being like school dances or crowded movie theaters. Whether foreign interference from Russia or Iran, or domestic misinformation coming from the White House, social media companies have been put in an uncomfortable position; how do you police millions and millions of users to prevent the spread of lies, and how do you label such misinformation when it comes from public figures like the president?