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From left, Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren raise their hands to answer a question Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Make sense of the Democratic presidential race in real time

The latest presidential debate revealed the candidates’ strategies, says Northeastern professor Nick Beauchamp, who has helped develop a couple of visualization tools that bring new perspective to the election.

by Ian Thomsen September 13, 2019

Here’s why the second round of Democratic debates will be ‘an elimination round’

“The way the polling and fundraising stands now, there’s only a handful of people who will make that September cut,” says Alan Schroeder, an emeritus professor of journalism at Northeastern University who studied presidential debates. “For the candidates polling at 1 percent and below, this is their last chance to have a breakthrough.”

by Molly Callahan July 29, 2019

3Qs: Making sense of the encryption debate

Last week, presidential candidates in both the Republican and Democratic debates offered some interesting views about the Internet. Here, Daniel Wichs, an expert in modern cryptography and an assistant professor of computer science, weighs in on the debate about Internet security.

by Matthew McDonald December 21, 2015

Make sense of the Democratic presidential race in real time

Here’s why the second round of Democratic debates will be ‘an elimination round’

3Qs: Making sense of the encryption debate

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