Politics and Government

On campuses in the thick of societal transformation, Donald Trump viewed his education in a utilitarian light. Margaret O’Mara, professor of history at the UW, is quoted.

Seventy years ago, the Philippines won independence on the famous American holiday.

A good measure of how highly a government values “public safety” is the amount spent incarcerating people; a good measure of how little it values people is how much it costs an individual to be impris

The Syrian civil war, the rise of ISIS and Turkey's willingness to let American air strikes start there make it a prime target.

The Syrian civil war, the rise of ISIS and Turkey's willingness to let American air strikes start there make it a prime target.

Professor Daniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School.

Make no mistake: India’s failure to win membership in the NSG will shape Sino-Indian relations.

What’s the next step in the war against Islamic State-based terrorism?

Thursday’s vote against a pooled sovereignty arrangement, and in favor of a “go-it-alone” strategy suggests a new nationalism.

Tucked in a quiet corner of the UW Quad, Smith Hall is as peaceful as it gets on the Seattle campus. But walk inside and you’ll find torture, incarceration, and assassinations.

The United Kingdom has voted by a close margin to leave the European Union.

I-1515 would amend the state’s discrimination law so that public and private entities could restrict  “private facilities” to “biologically” male or female.

Americans often pay for their crimes twice — first with a prison sentence, then with a lifetime of debt many will never be able to escape.

Samuel K. Wasser, 62, a zoologist at the University of Washington, is a Sherlock Holmes of the wildlife trade. 

The United States has reinstated a broad system of debtors’ prisons, in effect making it a crime to be poor. Alexes Harris, associate professor of sociology at the UW, is quoted.