Social Sciences Division

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.

UW's Nancy Kenney weighs in on the health risks for young women donating their eggs.

Twitter seems to be heavily in favor of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but a sizeable slice of his support comes from social media bots, according to new research.

For Thailand's royalists — and there are millions of them — King Bhumibol Adulyadej will probably long remain embedded as a potent, father-like figure. 

The movie "Denial" is based on the true story of Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of Jewish Studies who taught her first classes at the UW. 

UW sociology graduate students placed envelopes throughout Seattle neighborhoods addressed to either Black Lives Matter, the American Neo-Nazi Party, or a third neutral party.

This year's presidential race is one of the strangest we've seen in many years and many voters in Washington state are struggling with their selection.

The end of the 2016 presidential election is five weeks away. But for some Washington couples, families and friends, Election Day can’t come soon enough.

Hillary Clinton is coming under increasing pressure from progressives to oppose the Dakota Access oil pipeline. 

Last year, the world economy lost at least $2.4 billion when governments intentionally shut down their countries’ networks.