Social Sciences Division

Professor, Philip Howard looks at the vast number of devices connected to the internet and says many of them are unprotected.

The gender balance of fandom has shifted markedly recently, and this year, parity has been reached. UW digital media lecturer Rob Salkowitz is quoted.

The Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity at the University of Washington aims to help people better communicate about race, equity and diversity.

The University of Washington's Michael Blake, professor of philosophy, discusses Seattle's rent control debate.

It’s fair to say that dire warnings about climate change have become the new normal. So we shouldn’t expect a great punch line when our bar scenario takes place, as it did recently.

Stricter state sentencing laws in Washington have swelled the ranks of inmates serving life sentences to nearly one in five.

The Liberty Bell no longer rang and it was late, but 100 years ago this month the bronze symbol of American freedom rolled into Everett on a train.

A panel a journalists to talk over their nominees for under-covered story of the week. UW's Joanne Silberner, artist-in-residence in the department of communication, is quoted.

"For 200 years, the man who did most to set the United States on the path to prosperity and world power has been treated as a second-tier founder," writes lecturer Scott L. Montgomery.

Egyptian cabinet drafts new "anti-terror" laws as fighters linked to ISIL attack Sinai and Muslim Brotherhood call for revolt. Marwa Maziad, fellow at the Middle East Center at the UW, is referenced.

Man-made and defunct objects from over half a century worth of spacefaring now litter Earth orbits and poses a significant challenge.

Companies say they can't find skilled workers. Turns out unions are pretty good at providing them. History professor Dan Jacoby is quoted.

The concepts of freedom, equality, evolution and democracy lie at the heart of “The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How they Changed the World.”

In the wake of a landmark Supreme Court decision that made same-sex marriage a right nationwide, a whopping 26 million people slapped a rainbow flag over their Facebook photos to “celebrate pride.”

When couples have different ideas about retirement, they need to lay everything out on the table and discuss whether they can afford it.