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Voters line up outside a polling place in California

Election 2020

In election's wake, a call for humility, empathy, and understanding

Published Nov 4, 2020

While votes continue to be counted, SAIS Dean Eliot Cohen shares his insights about the lessons we still haven't learned from 2016

Q+A

What role will the courts play in determining the election's outcome?

Published Nov 3, 2020

Steven Schneebaum, a constitutional law expert at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, explores election scenarios and ponders the role of the judiciary in the electoral process

Pro-Trump protesters wear masks, military-style gear, and one carries a handgun

Q+A

Election fallout: Could partisan division prompt civil upheaval?

Published Nov 3, 2020

Political scientist Eugene Finkel discusses the threat of large-scale violence in response to the 2020 general election—regardless of who wins

Perspective

As election concludes, patience is critical

Published Nov 3, 2020

The job of voters will soon be done, but in a high-stakes election that promises a historic turnout, the winners may not soon be known, JHU political scientist Robert Lieberman writes

Let's rebuild, together

Published Nov 3, 2020

Composer and activist Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai and currently based in New York, urges unity after the election

We must find the socialized strangers

Published Nov 3, 2020

Adam Seth Levine, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute associate professor of health policy and management, discusses why overcoming our differences is so critical to self-governance