vote

Getting out the vote and hashing out the issues

Sept. 9, 2024

Nonpartisan, campuswide initiative aims to help students get registered and vote, as well as learn about the candidates and issues.

Cooper Baldwin

Scholar learns that ‘language links us all’

Sept. 5, 2024

Political science undergrad Cooper Baldwin wins prestigious U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to learn ‘one of the most critical languages for future United States policy.'

Red exit sign in Hindi and English

From harmony to civil war: when language turns deadly

Aug. 26, 2024

CU Boulder political scientist Jaroslav Tir argues it’s not just what a government says about its ethnic minorities, but also the language it uses that can be threatening.

Richard Nixon giving speech resigning the presidency

Remembering Nixon’s resignation, five decades later

Aug. 8, 2024

CU Boulder political science professor Kenneth Bickers reflects on what made the ex-president’s decision to step down following the Watergate scandal a watershed moment in American history and how it has influenced politics today.

3D pie chart on numbers graph

When economies falter, governors respond similarly, regardless of party

June 20, 2024

Political scientists find that partisan divide shrinks among governors who are responding to economic downturns.

Claudia Scheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez

In historic first, Mexico is poised to elect female president

May 31, 2024

However, CU Boulder scholar Lorraine Bayard de Volo notes that electing a female president may not guarantee a more feminist mode of governing.

Gail Nelson in Kabul, Afghanistan

Afghanistan did not have to be Vietnam 2.0, says former intelligence advisor

May 30, 2024

Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and CU Boulder alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power.

Protesters at Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings

Not just angry, but motivated and voting

Nov. 29, 2023

In new publication, CU Boulder PhD graduate Kimberly Killen highlights how ‘angry feminist claims’ have the power to inform and mobilize.

Moscow

What’s next for Putin’s Russia?

June 29, 2023

An agreement between the Wagner mercenary group and the Russian government averts a civil war for now, but the future is less clear, according to CU Boulder Russia expert and political science professor

Ukraine's flag painted on a cracked surface

Having built a business in Russia, alum fled as war began

Feb. 15, 2023

Benjamin Lourie’s career has made twists and turns, taking him to outer Mongolia and back to Moscow, where he opened a Tex-Mex restaurant near Red Square—two weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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