Front cover image, 2018 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Special Report What is political science? What do political scientists study? And why does political science matter for solving climate change? This blog is for everyone who may have shrugged and...
Photo of the stone plaque in Independence National Historical Park by Ed Uthman, Flickr The First Amendment of the US Constitution gives us five crucially important freedoms: freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, of assembly, and of petition. While...
The horrific and terrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022, where 19 children and 2 teachers were murdered in their elementary school classroom by a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle, was the second deadliest school shooting on record in the US (second only...
Image from Lesekreis, Wikimedia Commons I love this quote from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, when Humpty Dumpty says to Alice: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” Now, the political science research is...
Image from “Return to the Isle of Ted,” PS: Political Science and Politics (July 2020) In my team-taught, interdisciplinary course on climate change, my priority in my political science section was to help my students understand collective action problems—when people...
