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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is known as a crusader for civil rights and social justice, and on Saturday, May 15, she called the BU School of Law Class of 2021 to action, telling the graduates that they are the ones who can help build the world anew in the wake of “a global pandemic [that has] exposed the cracks of our fractured society.”
That call to action rang out in speeches throughout the University’s Commencement weekend, including in Sunday’s keynote Commencement address to undergraduates by US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) (Hon.’21). “You are today’s Freedom Riders,” Pressley told them, a message Healey carried as well a day earlier.
May 3, 2021
In Arizona, the recount of votes from last November’s presidential election proceeds apace. In Texas, Georgia and elsewhere, Republican legislators continue to press “reform” legislation on the premise that the outcome was determined by fraud a premise rejected over 50 times by state and federal courts.
But although the current level of lingering disbelief on the part of Donald Trump’s supporters is unusually high, a gap between the winning and losing sides’ willingness to accept the outcome of a presidential contest is nothing new. A just-released paper by MIT political scientists Jesse T. Clark and Charles Stewart III drills down into data on the topic and turns up some remarkable findings about voter confidence in the wake of the 2020 election. In particular, although the gap between the two sides’ belief that the contest was fair is by far the largest on record, the explanation may not be what one expects.
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