Schar School of Policy and Government

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.

U.S.–China trade relations are the most important bilateral trade relations today. The conflict between these countries has already progressed to a trade war. What is not well known is how this conflict is playing out in the World Trade Organization’s dispute resolution system.

The finale to a day-long seminar for newly elected regional officials brought two powerhouse Virginia politicians to the stage—former Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) and former U.S. Rep. Tom Davis (R).

Master’s students at the Schar School of Policy and Government became facilitators for a day in mid-November when a metaphorical “ship” docked at Founders Hall for the Master’s in Organization Development and Knowledge Management capstone event, the ODKM “Learning Community.”

Voting results from November’s midterm elections indicate the Republican party held a strong grip on the traditionally reliable Christian evangelical base. However, there was a notable decline in Catholic support for the GOP. This “faith factor” in U.S. politics was the focus of a “Pizza and Perspectives” panel discussion in mid-November presen...

Some 95,000 Jewish refugees fled Hitler’s Germany and Austria in the late 1930s to the U.S., only to discover a different kind of persecution when many of them settled in the South: Jim Crow laws. Having fled their homes because of increasingly brutal segregation, the German Jews became allies of the African Americans who were the targets of si...

An audience of about 160 turned out on Tuesday night to hear a briskly moving, candidly informative, and most importantly, refreshingly civil discussion of the 2018 Virginia election cycle.

When Jim Hagedorn’s father, Tom, became a congressman from Minnesota, the family split the year between their home in rural Truman and bustling Northern Virginia, where the younger Hagerdorn went to school, eventually graduating in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from George Mason University.

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...