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Welcome to Sunday. Our top five articles of the week are below.
After a long election season, it was good to have the AP call the presidential election yesterday, freeing us to finally turn off cable news after days of watching vote counts slowly inch up. But regardless of how you feel about the results – joy or sadness – the fact is that more than 70 million Americans feel the opposite.
Christopher Ojeda of the University of Tennessee offers evidence that depression is a common emotion related to politics. He has some practical advice for dealing with post-election grief.
And, even if you got the results you were hoping for, feeling good in the midst of a pandemic feels a bit misplaced. But should it? Angela Gorrell of the theological seminary at Baylor University is an expert on joy -- and she says it’s a perfectly appropriate emotion for 2020.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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Watching the presidential election returns on election night in retirement community of The Villages, Florida.
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W. Joseph Campbell, American University School of Communication
Polls predicted a 'blue wave' that didn't materialize.
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Is it a lovely autumn day, or is America burning to the ground?
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Francisco Gallegos, Wake Forest University; Carlos Alberto Sánchez, San José State University
Mexican philosophers have a word for the peculiar anxiety you may be feeling: 'zozobra,' a dizziness that arises from social disintegration.
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Jayur Mehta, Florida State University
Five centuries before Columbus arrived, migrants were spreading across North America, carrying their culture with them and mixing with those they encountered in new places.
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Julie Hanlon Rubio, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University
The Vatican has clarified that Pope Francis' support of civil unions did not change church doctrine. A theologian explains what Francis is doing is departing from Catholic rhetoric on the family.
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Craig Robert Martin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Earth's magnetic field locks information into lava as it cools into rock. Millions of years later, scientists can decipher this magnetic data to build geologic timelines and maps.
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