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The last preparations in a polling station at a school in Rotterdam a day before parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. Credit Robin Utrecht/European Pressphoto Agency Elections in the Netherlands on Wednesday are being watched especially closely across Europe and beyond as a key gauge of whether formerly strong barriers to the far right still stand…
Students at Columbia University protested on Monday at the Manhattan campus over the university’s decision to challenge the recent vote by graduate students to unionize. Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times The battle over whether graduate students at universities can unionize entered a new phase on Friday, when Columbia University filed a challenge…
close story-meta-footer Photo Voting in Ohio during the 2012 presidential election. Low turnout early in the day among demographic groups likelier to vote for President Obama made his campaign team think he was going to lose the state (he didn’t). Credit Michael F. McElroy for The New York Times In the history of the Obama…