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After Monday's presidential debate, MSNBC's Chuck Todd critiqued the candidates' performances -- and ruffled feathers online with an unusual denunciation.

Bill Radke talks with UW associate professor Margaret O'Mara and former White House press secretary Scott McClellan about what we learned from the first presidential debate.

The discussion Tuesday evening at Town Hall Seattle, “2016 election: How Did We Get Here?,” was sponsored by the UW Alumni Association.

A list of the limited scholarship that could help provide a better understanding of the rise of Donald Trump and Trumpism, i.e. his unique form of radical right politics.

Although most white Americans self-report little to no racial bias against black people, they tend to show robust implicit, or unconscious, biases.

UW biologist Dee Boersma and her colleagues combed through 28 years’ worth of data on Magellanic penguins for signs that natural selection may be acting on certain traits. 

A number of national polls show Donald Trump gaining ground on Hillary Clinton. Could Trump win? University of Washington political science professor Christopher Parker thinks he can do it.

Big Data is everywhere — even the skies. UW Astronomer Andrew Connolly shows how large amounts of data are being collected about our universe, and how it could lead to new discoveries.

Utah has taken the step of declaring pornography a public health threat much like tobacco. And now it’s on the agenda in Washington state. 

UW's Nives Dolšak, Aseem Prakash and Maggie Allen provide their opinions on the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.