Politics and Government

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."

Whether the kompromat exists, the term has entered the public discourse," writes Katy Pearce, assistant professor of communication at the UW.

In this Inside Higher Ed piece, scholars debate what Donald Trump's election means, whether efforts to band together as a discipline to oppose him were wrong and what the future may hold.

Allison Skinner, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW is quoted.

Gov. Jay Inslee Thursday signed his first reprieve of a death-row convict, part of his moratorium on Washington’s death penalty.

The Implicit Association Test reveals attitudes we may not be aware we have, even regarding Presidential candidates.

Professor Christopher Parker, who studies reactionary politics in America, weighs in on Trump and the Presidential race.

When the election's over and the dust clears, a panel of UW political science faculty will help make sense of it all on November 16.

Mikayla Hall (2011), speechwriter for the House Republican Conference, got her start at the UW Speaking Center.