Northwestern Student Ethan Barnes Named a Truman Scholar
Politics
Embracing Uncertainty, From Economic Policy To Space Colonization
Throughout his 50-year career, Charles Manski has had a broad taste in research, publishing work for both academic and mainstream audiences on a wide range of policy topics including financial aid for college students, pandemic response, clinical medicine and climate policy. In his...
Inauguration week panel explores hot topics of free expression and academic freedom in higher education
As a haven for intellectual exchange and academic freedom, Northwestern University fosters the sparks of innovation that ignite from collisions across differences. But such collisions — spanning disciplines, backgrounds, and worldviews — sometimes create conflict. Five Northwestern scholars, whose personal political...
Study shows the benefits of working together persist even as polarization in Congress has risen
Political scientists from Northwestern University, University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University have analyzed more than 40 years of congressional data to determine whether effective legislators more frequently adopt a bipartisan or partisan approach to reaching their policy goals. The researchers found...
Faculty submit expert statements on democracy and political violence to House Select Committee investigating the January 6th US Capitol attack
Recently, a group of leading experts on democracy and political violence, including Northwestern historians Kathleen Belew and Kate Masur submitted statements to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. The experts' statements provide valuable...
National Survey Finds Americans Have Difficulty Identifying False Political Claims
A recent national survey conducted by the COVID States Project, a collaborative research effort including Northwestern, Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers universities, revealed that only 8% of nearly 25,000 Americans surveyed were able to correctly identify all false political claims presented...
Kathleen Belew On Mitigating Political Violence
Kathleen Belew, Associate Professor of History, has been featured many times over in the news lately to comment on the rise of white nationalist extremism, and, specifically, Trump's meeting with white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes. Belew, author of Bring the War...