Politics and Government

Laura Dowling, ’81, ’91, served as the nation’s Chief Floral Designer from 2009 to 2015.

The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs is dedicated to the improvement of graduate education in international affairs.

UW History Department professor, Margaret O'Mara, weighs in on Mark Zuckerberg's recent commencement speech.

UW geography professor, Kam Wing Chan, weighs in on Beijing's population control actions outlined in this in-depth report.

Margaret O'Mara of the UW History Department weighs in.

UW 360 profile of  Dulce Gutiérrez, the UW alumnus quickly making a name for herself as a rising political leader in her central Washington hometown of Yakima.

KOMO Radio's Herb Weisbaum interviews Clark Sorensen, director of the Center for Korea Studies at the UW, about North Korea-U.S. relations.

UW history professor, Jim Gregory, on the election, activism, and historical perspective.

Saadia Pekkanen, Job and Gertrude Tamaki professor at the Jackson School for International Studies, on US-Japan relations in the Abe-Trump era

Tell a Congressional staffer that you’re visiting to talk about public support for the humanities and you see waves of both puzzlement and relief wash across their face.

The Seattle Globalist, founded at the UW, reports on pressing political and social issues through the lens of diverse contributors. 

UW professors Christopher Sebastian Parker and David Domke joined Wellspring Family Services vice president R. Keith Myers to discuss the question: Is President Trump gaslighting us?

Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West, a pair of scientists at the UW, want to teach students how to survive the avalanche of false or misleading data shaken loose by shifts in media, technology and politics.

Some people in the U.S. are withdrawing from mainstream society into "intentional communities."

Since the emergence of an unverified dossier with salacious claims about President-elect Donald Trump, Americans have debated the ramifications of the arrival of “kompromat."