Media Coverage and Op-Eds

Professor Assem Prakash on Forbes: "2022 Earth Day Brings Grim News On Climate Policy: What Is The Way Forward?"
April 26, 2022
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Four Political Science Students on the Husky 100!
April 25, 2022
Prof. Megan Ming Francis was featured in South Seattle Emerald, "OPINION: THE 2 SEATTLE FREEDOM SCHOLARS YOU NEED TO KNOW"
April 5, 2022
Professor Aseem Prakash on The Regulatory Interview with Prof. Nives Dolšak and Prof. Jennifer Griffin, "Is ESG Simply the Old CSR Wine in a New Bottle?"
March 28, 2022
Margaret Levi speaking at TEDxSeattle
Reviving the Labor Movement
March 25, 2022
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Here’s Why Biden Switched From Opposing Russian Oil Ban To Supporting It"
March 9, 2022
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Q13 News, "The politics of gas prices"
March 8, 2022
Prof. Aseem Prakash, Prof Laura E. Evans, and Prof Nives Dolšak on Plos One, "Do windy areas have more wind turbines: An empirical analysis of wind installed capacity in Native tribal nations"
March 7, 2022
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes: "Ukraine Crisis Is Terrible News For Climate Policy"
February 24, 2022
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes: "Climate Activists Should Worry That Seattle Housing Market Is Going Through The Roof"
February 22, 2022
Prof. Margaret Teresa Brower in The Washington Post, "Democrats are rewriting Build Back Better. Here’s what Black and Latina women activists say they need"

February 11, 2022
Prof. Scott Lemieux writes in Balls and Strikes: "A Right-Wing Supreme Court Keeps Pretending Laws Say Things They Do Not"
February 10, 2022
Prof. Aseem Prakash and Grad Student Sandra Ahmadi on FP Insider Access: "Autocrats Are Exploiting COVID-19 to Weaken Central Bank Independence"
January 19, 2022
Prof. Victor Menaldo, Prof. James D. Long, and Grad Student Morgan Wack on The Conversation: "Prosecuting Trump would inevitably be political – and other countries have had mixed success in holding ex-presidents accountable"
January 11, 2022
Prof. Christopher Parker on KUOW, "'Washington and Seattle are not what you think.' How the Capitol insurrection changed politics across the US"
January 7, 2022
Prof. Jake Grumbach on Boston Review, "The Deep Structure of Democratic Crisis"
January 6, 2022
Prof. Asli Cansunar Interviewed on BBC site, "Income calculator: 90% of Brazilians earn less than R$ 3.5 thousand; check your position on the list"
December 17, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash interviewed in The Seattle Times, "Climate experts raise concerns about Kraken’s NFT partnership; team says it did due diligence"
December 17, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Foreign Policy: "When Promoting Democracy, Less Is More"
December 9, 2021
Prof. Scott Lemieux on The American Prospect, "Abortion Will Not Be Sent Back to the States"
December 7, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes: "The Message From Glasgow: Climate Politics Is Local"
December 2, 2021
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November 23, 2021
Tony Gill joins the Authors Corner in "Why American Businesses Are Richer Than Ever"
November 15, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash interviewed for Washington Post, "How 4 environmentalists travel with the climate in mind"
November 12, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash was quoted in The Washington Post's: "In mayoral elections nationwide, voters opt for pragmatism over ideology"
November 4, 2021
Prof. Anthony Gill on the American Institute for Economic Research, "The Surprising Social Signals of Halloween"
November 2, 2021
Prof. Michael McCann and Grad. Student Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer on Yes! Magazine, "The Hidden Side of Fossil Fuel Investments: Private Equity"
November 2, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes: Storms And Power Outages: Decarbonization Depends On Reliable Electricity Supply
November 1, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Carbon Capture At COP26: Is The Glasgow Summit Ready For This Conversation?"
October 26, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash Discussing Local Environmental Politics on KNKX and KUOW
October 21, 2021
Prof. Susan Whiting on the Wash. Post Monkey Cage Blog: China’s Evergrande is in trouble. But so is China’s top-down political economy
October 21, 2021
Grad Jonathan Beck on Law & Social Inquiry: Inequality and the Human Right to Tuition-Free Higher Education: Mobilizing Human Rights Law in the German Movement against Tuition Fees
October 20, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Larry Fink Wants $100 Billion For Decarbonization Aid: We Are Not Persuaded"
October 14, 2021
Prof. Christopher Adolph in UW News, "Republican-led states lifted pandemic restrictions earlier, study finds"
October 1, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash and Grad Sandra Ahmadi on The Regulatory Review, "Climate Change and Price Stability Mandates at Central Banks"
September 15, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes,, "U.S. Climate Agenda In The Aftermath Of The Afghanistan Withdrawal"
August 26, 2021
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Prof. Anthony Gill in the Wall Street Journal, "Economics Explains the Taliban’s Rapid Advances"
August 19, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Wildfires, Heatwaves, And The IPCC Report: Yet Climate Policy Is Losing Steam"
August 16, 2021
Prof. James Long on Voice of America's Straight Talk Africa Discussing Investigating Former Leaders
August 5, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Why Are New York And Seattle Mayoral Candidates Not Talking About Climate Change?"
July 30, 2021
Prof. Anthony Gill on the AIER site, "The High Price of Popcorn"
July 16, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Including Tree Equity In The Climate Pledge: Here’s How Amazon Can Help Address The Heat Island Effect"
July 9, 2021
Prof. Christopher Parker Research Quoted in NYT, "Trump’s Cult of Animosity Shows No Sign of Letting Up"
July 9, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash in The Regulatory Review, "Why Local Communities May Support Nuclear Energy"
July 6, 2021
Profs. Long, Smith and Menaldo on The Conversation, "Why nobody will ever agree on whether Covid lockdowns were worth it"
June 29, 2021
Prof. Victor Menaldo on Divided We Fall site, "In Defense of the Marketplace of Ideas"
June 29, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Heat Waves Are A Local Health Hazard: Firms Should Plant Trees In Poor Neighborhoods"
June 24, 2021
Political Science Graduate Maha Alhomoud Featured in Undergraduate Academic Affairs News
June 16, 2021
Prof. Jake Grumbach in the UW News, "Our democracy is fundamentally at stake"
June 10, 2021
Prof. Aseem Prakash on Forbes, "Oil Industry’s Fluctuating Fortunes: Recent Wins And Losses In Climate Policy"
June 2, 2021