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Cheap oil is blocking progress on climate change
Analysis from international studies lecturer, Scott Montgomery
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The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s
Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are according to UW history professor Margaret O'Mara.
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Which motivates independents to get politically involved: Pocketbook issues or fear that Trump is hurting democracy?
Op-ed by UW political scientist, Christopher Parker, on the 2020 elections
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Lessons for Washington from a carbon-tax autopsy
Op-ed by Nives Dolsak, marine and environmental affairs; Aseem Prakash and Steven Karceski, Center for Environmental Politics
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Whitewashing: Seattle artist calls attention to censored history in series on WWII war crimes
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.
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Why space debris cleanup might be a national security threat
Analysis from Professor of International Studies, Saadia Pekkanen
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Waging War in Cyberspace
A doctoral student explains how one online hacker can be more powerful than 10,000 soldiers.
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Electing a Record Number of Women to Congress Is Great. But It’s Not the Goal
Margaret O'Mara, a professor at the UW who studies U.S. electoral history weighs in on the gender breakdown in the recent elections.
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Should I be afraid of election hacking?
International cybersecurity expert, Dr. Jessica Beyer, weighs in on potential motivations for election hacking.
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Silicon Valley can't escape the business of war
Opinion piece by UW Department of History Professor, Margaret O'Mara.
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Meet the UW professor who just killed the death penalty
Learn how sociologist Katherine Beckett's research on racial bias contributed to the abolishment of the death penalty in WA State.
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Don’t be afraid to talk about the costs of dealing with climate change
Analysis from Aseem Prakash of the Center for Environmental Politics.
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Millions of Texas oil dollars flowing into carbon fee fight in Washington state
UW political science professor and founding director of the Center for Environmental Politics, Aseem Prakash, on the potential impact of initiative 1631
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Marshall Islands marches toward zero greenhouse emissions by 2050
Aseem Prakash, founding director of the UW's Center for Environmental Politics, said the Marshall Islands’ move spoke to a growing trend around carbon neutrality.
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China Distances Children From Families to Subdue Muslim West
"What we're looking at is something like a settler colonial situation where an entire generation is lost," said Darren Byler, a researcher of Uighur culture at UW.