The bruising political campaigns are finally behind us, and with another Election Day in the books, it’s time to examine what went right—and wrong—for some of the candidates.
The amount of turmoil and general hullabaloo emanating from the White House is so overwhelmingly unwieldly that reporters from the Washington Post are unable to keep up with the demand, said Greg Miller, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner at the newspaper. “A lot of stories we would ordinarily cover, we just have to leave there,” he said. Nonethe...
The first students in a new Headquarters Marine Corps program, which makes higher education opportunities available to Marine Corps Officers, began studies in July at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
Italy in the late 1960s was a dangerous place. At one point there were 657 different terrorist groups operating in the country, each trying to prove to the others that they were capable of more violence than the next. It was how they recruited new members and how they made their political points, and it had the country on edge for years.
While the issue of migration is dominating the on-going news cycle, a forum last Wednesday at George Mason University gathered a dozen academic, media and policy experts on the issues of migration and gangs to discuss the complex nature of forced immigration and gang activities and their relation to homeland security.
A record number of women of all races are currently serving in state houses across the country. While Jatia Wrighten said she is thrilled by the progress women have made in state legislatures as senators and representatives, she’s less excited by the leadership gaps that exist in every state capital. “There are more black women and white women...
As the November 6 election day draws closer, international and domestic media outlets are eager to learn how young voters are responding to the seemingly ceaseless—and increasingly heated—campaign rhetoric.
The classroom for the day was the Gold Room of the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, across the white marble hall from the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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As Election Day draws near and the campaigns for Congressional and Senate offices heat up, the Washington Post-Schar School national polls help put the somewhat chaotic political horizon into focus.