Politics and Government

With Yakima's new district-based election system, the Latino community has new-found momentum in its efforts to organize politically. Mark Smith, UW political science professor, is quoted.

The ambiguities in the dual-uses of space technology blur our understanding of Asia. They mask just who is a competent military space power in Asia today.

Elena I. Campbell, a University of Washington associate professor of history, has published her first book, which studies Russia’s policies toward Muslims in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The way people think about poverty affects both how important we think fighting poverty is. UW's Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood, geography professors, are quoted.

The once ubiquitous term "middle class" has gone conspicuously missing from the 2016 campaign trail, as candidates and their strategists grasp for new terms for an unsettled economic era.

Kam Wing Chan, a professor of geography, comments on China's rural-urban migrants.

The housing crisis was also a major migration event, although we seldom think of it that way. As many as 10 million families lost their homes to foreclosure.

In this examination of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's re-creation of his political identity, a paper co-written by Hannah Walker, a doctoral candidate at the UW, is quoted.

Remembering Vietnam should be a time for self-reflection and less finger-pointing on all sides.

How does unrest in Baltimore shape the conversation around deaths in police custody?

The United Nations has done much to reduce the state of that lawlessness in outer space but we still have ambiguities. When paired with national rivalries, these ambiguities create uncertainty.

Some shamans have turned down lucrative jobs with mining companies out of spiritual concerns, according to Jackson School student Amalia Rubin

News headlines often imply fatalism about relations on the Korean peninsula, but University of Washington senior Benjamin Lee hopes to play a part in finding a peaceful resolution.

Conservation biologist Samuel Wasser's DNA analysis helping to stop illegal ivory trade worldwide.

KING 5 reports on the work of students who are helping search for children disappeared in El Salvador during violent conflict in the early 1980s.