Schar School of Policy and Government

In the end, it wasn’t so much a debate as a televised argument over who is the most bipartisan politician.

If women make over half of the population in the United States, then why are there only about 20 percent of them in Congress?

Brian Bar thought he knew exactly the type of career field he would get into after college. But after completing an unsatisfactory senior-year internship in his chosen field, he decided to change course.

Kavon Williams, the latest member of staff to join the Schar School of Policy and Government, is no stranger to George Mason University. He joins us after a year at the graduate admissions office on Mason’s Fairfax campus.

Steven Pearlstein believes the main reason that many people, particularly students, are skeptical about politics is because of their information—or lack thereof.

Not long after visiting some family in the Washington, D.C. area, Paul Nooney decided that it was time to leave his native Albany, N.Y., where he had lived his entire life.

It’s not every day that you have the former head of the CIA and NSA on your campus.

Mason student Emma Lyons was one of 15 college students nationwide to receive a scholarship to attend the Presidential Sites Summit in Washington, D.C., hosted by the White House Historical Association. ​

The methods of solving public problems are evolving in today’s world, and practitioners, as well as the schools that teach public policy-making, need to modernize their processes or face failure, said Anne-Marie Slaughter.

The state of Virginia’s K-12 public schools and the dire need to fund their updating and, in many cases, fix fundamental structural damage, was the topic of a two-hour special hearing of a Virginia Senate subcommittee Wednesday, September 5, at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University’s Arlington Campus. Schar Sc...