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New book reveals Electoral College strategies in modern political era

2024-09-09

A new book co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political scientist explores the road to the White House through three distinct eras of presidential campaigning. The book, “...

How do presidential candidates embody ideas about national identity, including views of Latinos?

2024-08-01

Professor Cisneros posing in front of some marble columns.

Professor J. David Cisneros spoke with the Illinois News Bureau's research editor Sharita Forrest about how political candidates in U.S. elections both court and disparage Latinx communities.

Will social media polls accurately predict the winner of the U.S. presidential election?

2024-07-30

Professor Yang leaning against marble columns

Communication professor JungHwan Yang, a co-principal investigator on a research project and a website that examine the informal polls about the U.S. presidential election posted on X, formerly Twitter. Yang spoke with News Bureau research editor Sharita Forrest about the project.

Blast from the past

2023-01-08

Trinity mushroom cloud in black and white

Fewer than 120,000 U.S. World War II veterans are still alive in 2023. People who lived through the war are relatively few. Why then, in an age of shortening attention spans and character limits, would a three-hour-long biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer interest the modern audience? Although...

Barbenheimer: The Internet sensation that stole headlines and made its way into the classroom

2023-01-08

A pink-toned image of the word Barbie in a stylized font behind a pink mushroom cloud explosion

Barbenheimer, the portmanteau for Barbie: The Movie and Oppenheimer, captured headlines this summer. But how did two films that were seemingly polar opposites get grouped into a suggested double-header and become so inextricably linked? At face value, the only thing they share is a premiere date:...