Buzz McClain

Schar School Distinguished Visiting Professor Richard Kauzlarich drew on his experience as ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997-99) and Azerbaijan (1994-97) on Tuesday when he served as moderator for a discussion of a new translation of three Akram Aylisli novellas collected in “Farewell, Aylis: A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works” (Aca...

A delegation of Schar School of Policy and Government professors began a collaboration with Costa Rican government officials in November to research that country’s growing transnational network of organ trafficking.

The immediate and lasting effects of the 2018 midterm elections on U.S. immigration policy was the subject of a late November panel discussion hosted by the Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) at George Mason University and moderated by Schar School Assistant Professor Justin Gest, author of several well-received books on modern immigration...

Virginia’s two senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner (both Ds), discussed fiscal issues, trade policies, security clearances, energy, Amazon’s arrival, and other topics important to the Commonwealth in an hour-long discussion hosted by the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University on Thursday morning. The conversation, call...

Congressional oversight committees, whistleblowers, inspectors general, and lawyers—so many lawyers—were the topics of conversation Monday night when the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at the Schar School of Policy and Government presented a panel of former justice and intelligence veterans, and one...

“Drugs are not the problem,” said Bill Hazel. “Addiction is the problem.”

A standing-room-only crowd of nearly 75 students, faculty members, and staff turned out last Thursday afternoon at the HUB on the Fairfax Campus of George Mason University for a town hall conversation about religion in the crosshairs of contemporary culture, and what might be done to temper the volatile issue, particularly on university campuses.

This acute energy crisis is a result of flawed energy policies pursued for decades, the high cost of generation, and aging and inadequate transmission, among other causes.

America’s biodefense efforts began in 1777 when General George Washington, horrified at the prospect of losing a significant percentage of his troops to smallpox, ordered the Continental Army to be inoculated against the disease through a practice known as variolation.