Social Sciences Division

Following two disastrous seasons, the "Married at First Sight" Season 4 reunion special ended with good news: Two couples are still married six months later.

Nearly two years after the feds decried a system of preying on the desperate to fund the local government in Ferguson, Missouri, being poor can still get you locked up in the state.

Mark Plummer's interdisciplinary celebrates his life and work.

What happens when what you’re taught in school contradicts what you were taught by your family and community?

Devin Naar, professor of Sephardic studies at the UW, explores the fate of Salonica’s Jews and offers insight into how he uncovered the lost sources necessary to write his new book.

Professor Christopher Parker, who studies reactionary politics in America, weighs in on Trump and the Presidential race.

When the election's over and the dust clears, a panel of UW political science faculty will help make sense of it all on November 16.

Mikayla Hall (2011), speechwriter for the House Republican Conference, got her start at the UW Speaking Center.

More than 2000 US citizens filed as Presidential candidates. Craig Tomashoff (1982) wanted to know why.

UW professor Margaret O'Mara offers historical context for the 2016 Presidential election.

Many corporate giants have disclosed data on their carbon emissions to CDP, but Amazon is now the largest U.S. company by market value to refuse to answer their questions.

Between the first two presidential debates, a third of pro-Trump tweets and nearly a fifth of pro-Clinton tweets came from automated accounts.

UW sociologist Alexes Harris addresses the shortage of bone marrow donors for African Americans and those of mixed race origins as she battles a rare blood cancer.

As we come to the end of a very long presidential election cycle, what can we do to remedy our legacy of racial injustice and move forward? 

Before KNKX features conversations with five different people who live in the Puget Sound area, they spent a moment with David Domke, professor of political communication at UW.