The influence of social theorists such as Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx on international-relations theory are easily found in the classic texts of that discipline, say the editors in chief of this new ...

Conspiracy thinking, which was once played for laughs, has, in recent years, grown more ominous. Tales of UFOs and Area 52, a staged moon landing, Elvis Presley in an East Texas nursing home and men ...

There are moments in history when the public silently rewrites the script of a region’s political psychology. The 150th ...

Why do nation-states go to war? Can international institutions promote peace? And how do people organize across borders to address injustice? This courses examines the politics and sociology of war, ...

Note: Students are expected to do the common readings each week and to report on three of the optional books over the course of the seminar. This is a departmental mini-seminar, open to graduate ...

Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz with Gov. Ron DeSantis at a press conference in Miami on May 9, 2023. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com On Jan. 24, the Board of Governors of the State ...

This episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast deals with liberal bias in higher education and what to do about it, with a specific focus on the field of sociology. According to Gallup, a strong ...

Personality and zip code can help explain differences in political ideology, according to a new study from Northwestern ...

This spring, a number of students at Tufts University have a rare opportunity to study with African students. Pearl T. Robinson, a professor of political science at the university, has worked to set ...

Michigan Tech has come out on top and Harvard at the bottom in the largest-ever survey looking into the state of free speech on America's college campuses. Most elite colleges, including Penn and Yale ...

When one or two families dominate politics, it is not only democracy that weakens. Family life itself begins to fray. We are ...