Buzz McClain

More than 80 students, faculty, and staff members turned out on a Monday afternoon in October to hear a wide-ranging exchange between former acting director of the CIA Michael Morell and Sir John Scarlett, the former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service—MI6—at George Mason University’s Arlington Campus auditorium.

Five Northern Virginia jurisdictions in the Top 20 of a national poll conducted by the independent business news publication 24/7 Wall Street boast leaders who earned their Master’s in Public Administration degrees in the Northern Virginia Public Service Fellows Program at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, a compet...

New entries in the Almanac of Virginia Politics include election-relevant material in key races throughout the Commonwealth. Voters can find up-to-date information on candidates and campaign activities on the closely watched, hotly contested races in the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate.

A late September field trip found 18 Global Politics Fellows from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences venturing to the famed think-tank, the Wilson Center, in Washington, D.C.

An early October field trip found eight George Mason University students, many of them studying at the Schar School of Policy and Government, walking through an undersized “secret door” located behind the central counter of the massive and ornate Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

The “ah-ha” moment came during a conversation in London’s SkyBar during a break at a 2015 investment conference.

On the heels of a first-ever conference tackling the emerging and dangerous issue of trade-based money laundering (TBML), the U.S. Senate Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Committee has earmarked $2 million in assessment funding for FY 2020.

Nearly 100 years ago Oxford University began a degree program that combined the study of philosophy, political science, and economics—PPE for short. The idea was to create a course of study that included elements of traditional classical education with subjects that would be immediately applicable to the contemporary world.

Marisol Maddox spent three weeks this summer aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker traveling inside the Arctic Circle. She was prepared for minus-20-with-wind-chill temperatures and brisk 20-plus-hours-a-day sunshine, but the cold temperatures never came.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) will deliver a keynote address tackling international trade-based money laundering, an issue that, Cassidy said, “is America’s biggest national security threat that almost no one is paying attention to.”