Politics and Government

UW faculty members Christopher Parker and Margaret O'Mara weigh in on the 2020 presidential election. 

Margaret O’Mara, a UW history professor who has studied presidential campaigns, weighs in on Inslee’s chances of becoming president.

Megan Ming Francis, associate professor of political science, discusses "movement capture" and its effect on the civil rights movement.

Alaniz, a professor in the department of Slavic languages and literatures, spoke about Mexican-American representation in comics from the 1950s to the 1980s.

The UW Center for Human Rights is teaching a new generation to use the Freedom of Information Act.

Analysis from international studies lecturer, Scott Montgomery

Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are according to UW history professor Margaret O'Mara. 

Op-ed by UW political scientist, Christopher Parker, on the 2020 elections

Op-ed by Nives Dolsak, marine and environmental affairs; Aseem Prakash and Steven Karceski, Center for Environmental Politics

Miha Sarani (BFA, 2015), an art history graduate, began the project after seeing news of the white nationalist march in Virgina and the lack of condemnation of white supremacy that followed.

Analysis from Professor of International Studies, Saadia Pekkanen

A doctoral student explains how one online hacker can be more powerful than 10,000 soldiers.

Margaret O'Mara, a professor at the UW who studies U.S. electoral history weighs in on the gender breakdown in the recent elections.

International cybersecurity expert, Dr. Jessica Beyer, weighs in on potential motivations for election hacking. 

Opinion piece by UW Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara.