“The first presidential debate is but a week away. The challenge for news outlets will be to try to capture the debate as a whole and not through the lens of its most sensational moment,” writes Thomas E. Patterson.
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Most Latino, Black and Native American households have experienced serious financial problems during the coronavirus outbreak — and Latinos have fared worst — finds a new survey.
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As wildfires scorch Oregon, California and Washington, two papers offer new detail on the intersection of temperature, mortality and place.
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Tom Patterson asks whether the press has an obligation to increase its focus on the U.S. census as the new deadline for the count approaches.
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Colleges that compete in Power Five athletic conferences use revenue from men’s basketball and football to fund sports that tend to lose money and draw wealthier students.
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Today’s presidential nominees need not only convince voters that they’re the better choice but also that their party is an acceptable choice, writes Thomas E. Patterson.
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Two recent surveys come to broadly different conclusions on how people used their their stimulus checks. One consistency between the two: People with less liquidity tended to part with their stimulus rather than save.
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As education officials re-open schools for the fall semester or debate the possibility, we look at research on the role children play in the transmission of COVID-19.
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Scholar Thomas E. Patterson considers the roles of white evangelicals and the religiously unaffiliated in the 2020 election.
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Every presidential nominating convention since 1996 has produced a bump in the polls — referred to as a “convention bounce” — of 2% or less, Tom Patterson writes.
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