Politics and Government

The Jenkinses of Federal Way are among nearly 800 Washington state investors named in the Panama Papers, the leak of 11.5 million secret documents that exposes offshore accounts.

Margaret O'Mara, associate professor of history at the UW, says both parties should focus on the long game beyond 2016. 

Shirley Yee, professor of gender, women and sexuality studies at the UW, is featured in this column about how equality is portrayed in America. 

Newer, smaller, and potentially transformative businesses are today bringing forth what can best be described as a revolution in space affairs. 

Ph.D. student Tracey Chaplin published a collaborative op-ed discussing sea level rise, superstorms and drought, and the potential to decouple water rights from tenancy. 

World leaders gathered in Paris in December to forge a global agreement to limit planet-warming carbon emissions.

The study looked at rates of foster care nationwide and found that states with more punitive criminal justice systems tended to remove children from their homes far more often.

Jackson School faculty member Scott Montgomery says Russia is not what you think. 

Political science professor, Christopher Adolph talks about how things might change following the release of Panama Papers. 

"(The) number of women who had suffered from sexual abuse at the hands of state agents was surprising," writes Hind Ahmed Zaki, doctoral student in political science at the UW.

Professor Vincent Gallucci writes in The National Interest about the growing tension between the U.S. and Russia in the Arctic.

Sociology doctoral students found that some Seattle neighborhoods may not be so diverse when you analyze the area block by block. 

Jackson School alumna Hannah Haegeland discusses the risk of more bloodshed between Indian and Pakistan. 

Alumna Hannah Haegland talks about India's responsibilities as a nuclear state. 

The United States is the world’s leading military space power. But the future of that status is not assured in an era characterized by a return to competition from Russia and China.