Social Sciences Division

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. 

Tacking on exorbitant court fines and fees to the criminal conviction of a homeless woman is not justice.

The Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, which first met in a Lower East Side café in 1915, strives to connect to the youth 100 years later.

Dr. Hannah Pressman, Communications Director for the UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies uncovers the journey of her great-grandmother from the island of Rhodes to Paris.

Now that China has launched the world's first quantum communication satellite, the question is will it deliver on its promise.

Some couples, friends and relatives in Washington say the presidential campaign season has tangled intimate relationships unlike any before.