Drug prices: Why prescription medicines remain unaffordable for many Americans
This explainer, in addition to providing an initial overview, addresses five aspects of the debate about the high costs of prescription medicines.
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Election Beat 2020: Where did all the swing voters go?
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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Election Beat 2020: The influential roles of white evangelicals and ‘religious nones’
Scholar Thomas E. Patterson considers the roles of white evangelicals and the religiously unaffiliated in the 2020 election.
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The U.S. Postal Service: 5 studies to know about voting by mail, pricing for Amazon, the role of the mail in public health and more
The U.S. Postal Service may play an outsized role in elections this year. This research roundup can help inform news coverage of voting by mail.
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Election Beat 2020: Journalists’ meta-narratives of political candidates
“Election Beat 2020” is a new series of columns authored by Thomas E. Patterson at Harvard Kennedy School. In his inaugural piece, he discusses the problem of “meta-narratives.”
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Deepfake technology is changing fast — use these 5 resources to keep up
Deepfake videos are becoming easier to make every day. These five resources can help journalists keep up with this fast-changing technology.
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