The 2026 midterm elections will take place on Nov. 3, and a ll 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 Senate seats are up for a vote. James Long and Mark Smith, professors of political science at the 蘑菇视频, weigh in on critical contests, midterm trends, election security and more.
Researchers estimate that changes to how the Postal Service collects and processes mail could cause tens of thousands of otherwise valid ballots to be rejected. These mail delays disproportionately impact rural voters and those in outlying suburban communities.聽
Lawrence Goldman, a teaching professor of chemistry at the 蘑菇视频, has also been a member of the Lake Forest Park city council since 2022. While science came naturally to Goldman, his venture into civics was 鈥渕ore serendipitous.鈥�
蘑菇视频 President Ana Mari Cauce today announced the selection of Joe Dacca as vice president for the 蘑菇视频 Office of External Affairs effective July 2.
Before the results of the 2024 election start rolling in, 蘑菇视频 News asked three 蘑菇视频 professors of political science to discuss what鈥檚 on their minds heading into the final hours.
Victor Menaldo, 蘑菇视频 professor of political science, co-authored the forthcoming book, “U.S. Innovation Inequality and Trumpism.” The book focuses on how former President Donald Trump 鈥� like other populists that came before him 鈥� exploits 鈥榠nnovation inequality,” or the divide between areas that are more technologically advanced and those that aren鈥檛.
James Long, 蘑菇视频 professor of political science, launched a new course this quarter. “How to Steal an Election” highlights the types of politicians who try to steal elections, and how and what can be done to secure them.
But in her new book 鈥淟og Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix,鈥� Katherine Cross, a 蘑菇视频 doctoral student in the Information School, argues that social media has limited political value.
A new 蘑菇视频 study showed that white and Black Christians perceived a politician concerned about anti-Christian bias as caring more about anti-white bias, being more willing to fight for white people and as less offensive than one concerned about anti-white bias.
The indictment of former President Trump isn’t just about an individual but about the office of the presidency, and what the country is willing to accept from its leaders, say 蘑菇视频 political scientists James Long and Victor Menaldo,
Monte Mills, professor of law at the 蘑菇视频 and director of the 蘑菇视频 Native American Law Center, discusses the significance of Arizona v. Navajo Nation, a water rights case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
More than 40,000 property deeds containing racially discriminatory language have been uncovered in Western Washington by the Racial Restrictive Covenants Project. Director James Gregory, professor of history at the 蘑菇视频, and his team aren鈥檛 finished yet.
When schools closed during the first year of the pandemic, an immediate and potentially devastating problem surfaced: How would millions of children in struggling families get the school meals many of them depended on? The U.S. Congress responded by authorizing the Department of Agriculture to roll out two major programs. It launched the 鈥済rab and go school meals,鈥� which helped schools provide prepared meals for off-site consumption and distributed funding for the state-operated Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) program, which gave…
Since it first launched in 2019, Washington state鈥檚 Environmental Health Disparities Map has been used to help decisionmakers and government agencies engage with overburdened communities to clean up contamination, improve buildings and electric grids, plant trees and many other projects. Using a complex matrix of data, this open-access, interactive map ranks Washington鈥檚 nearly 1,500 U.S. census tracts by health risks due to environmental degradation and economic and health disparities. It acts as a guide for state agencies and the legislature…
A new book co-edited by Scott Radnitz, associate professor in the 蘑菇视频 Jackson School of International Studies, features original papers on the roots and implications of the politics surrounding real and imagined fifth columns.
Opioid use disorder is an addiction crisis in the United States that has become increasingly lethal during the COVID-19 pandemic. To preserve access to life-saving treatment during the pandemic, federal drug agencies loosened requirements on physicians for treating these patients, including moving patient evaluations away from in-person exams to telemedicine. This federal policy change focused primarily on buprenorphine, a highly effective treatment for opioid use disorder and one that is much less onerous and stigmatizing than methadone, the other most…
A new study from Alan Griffith, assistant professor of economics at the 蘑菇视频, shows that Seattle’s democracy voucher program has increased the number of voters donating to city elections and the number of candidates in those elections.
Robert Pekkanen, 蘑菇视频 professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, teaches Crisis Negotiation. The centerpiece of the course is the International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise (ISCNE), a negotiation simulation where students act as diplomatic teams facing a real-world crisis scenario.
In his new book, 蘑菇视频 history professor Moon-Ho Jung traces how Asian radicals organized and confronted the U.S. empire and were labeled criminally seditious as a result.
All forest fire smoke is bad for people, but not all fires in forests are bad. This is the conundrum faced by experts in forest management and public health: Climate change and decades of fire suppression that have increased fuels are contributing to larger and more intense wildfires and, in order to improve forest health and reduce these explosive fires, prescribed and managed fire is necessary. Video: Experts collaborate to troubleshoot necessary fires and harmful smoke Journalists: Download soundbites…
蘑菇视频 professors Christoph Giebel, Vicente Rafael and Ileana M. Rodr铆guez-Silva will participate in a discussion on about a memorial plaque that was recently removed from Volunteer Park due to concerns about its accuracy.
In his book “The Sovereign Trickster,” 蘑菇视频 history professor Vicente L. Rafael examines the authoritarian rule of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and tries to make sense of a global shift to the political right.
The first results of research led by the 蘑菇视频 into handgun carrying by young people growing up in rural areas has found six distinct patterns for when and how often these individuals carry a handgun. The patterns, or 鈥渓ongitudinal trajectories,鈥� suggest that youths in rural areas differ in some ways from their urban counterparts when it comes to handgun carrying and provide information for programs designed to help prevent firearm violence and injury. 鈥淏ecause firearms in many rural…
Two 蘑菇视频 experts in climate change and health are lead authors of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The new report titled Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptations and Vulnerability, published Monday morning, details in over three thousand pages a 鈥渄ire warning鈥� about the consequences of inaction on reducing the emissions that are causing our planet to warm and on implementing interventions to prepare for and effectively manage the dangerous impacts of climate change…
蘑菇视频 researchers looked at almost 56,000 political ads from almost 750 news sites between September 2020 and January 2021.
A specific police action, an arrest or a shooting, has an immediate and direct effect on the individuals involved, but how far and wide do the reverberations of that action spread through the community? What are the health consequences for a specific, though not necessarily geographically defined, population? The authors of a new 蘑菇视频-led study looking into these questions write that because law enforcement directly interacts with a large number of people, 鈥減olicing may be a conspicuous yet not-well understood…
Ocean Voices, a program of the 蘑菇视频 Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center to advance equity in ocean science, has been named among the first group of actions taken in a United Nations-sponsored, decade-long program of ocean science for sustainable development.
Scott Radnitz, associate professor in the Jackson School of International Studies, discusses his new book, “Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region,” published by Oxford University Press.
A root cause of America’s sharp division, 蘑菇视频 international studies professor Dan Chirot says, is that the visions of the left and right are based on “drastically different histories.”
“Jewish Questions,” a podcast from the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, explores issues of Jewish life, politics, history and culture
Recent honors and achievements by 蘑菇视频 faculty and staff include a grant for field research in the Middle East, a staffer’s play being streamed by a Seattle theater and a professor’s cartoon remembrance of a relative lost to COVID-19.
Historian Anand Yang writes about the British history of shipping of convicted criminals to other continents; and new world music education books from ethnomusicologist Patricia Shehan Campbell.
Recent honors and achievements by 蘑菇视频 faculty include a keynote address at a national Holocaust commemoration event, an album of new compositions and a best-of-2020 musical nod from the Seattle Times.
New data from the 蘑菇视频, collected just before and after the Capitol riot, reveals fervent Trump voters’ opinions about race, gender, the pandemic and the 2020 election.
Nicolaas Barr of the 蘑菇视频’s Comparative History of Ideas Department talks about his translation of “Djinn,” a memoir by Tofik Dibi, who served for six years as a member of the Dutch Parliament.
A book co-edited by Robert Pekkanen of the 蘑菇视频’s Jackson School of International Studies brings together top scholars to study the origins and effects of electoral systems in the United States and other democracies.
Understanding Washington residents鈥� access to food and their economic well-being 鈥� or lack of it 鈥� during the COVID-19 pandemic is vital for state and community partners to identify those needs and allocate resources effectively. To help accomplish this goal, the 蘑菇视频, Washington State University and Tacoma Community College, along with input from partners in local, county and state governments 鈥� such as the Washington State Department of Health and the Washington State Department of Agriculture 鈥� are…
Even before the pandemic and disagreements over social restrictions recommended by public health officials across the state, public health agencies in Washington were struggling due to a lack of resources. In recent weeks, firings, resignations and death threats targeting local health officials has led to a staffing crisis in the agencies most responsible for local pandemic response. Now, as these public attacks further cripple public health agencies, a 蘑菇视频 public health expert is calling for action to defend…
Concessions from U.S. presidents usually happen quickly, without drama, says 蘑菇视频 history professor Margaret O鈥橫ara.
A preview of the Nov. 6 SPARC Symposium, which will feature a conversation with Andy Weir, author of “The Martian.”