Schar School of Policy and Government

More than 300 audience members turned out Monday night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., for the first event of the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government. The 90-minute panel discussion, “Truth Tellers in the Bunker: Evidence-Based Institutions in a Post-Truth World,” focused on how those committed to delivering fact-based information are under attack around the world, and intentionally so.

As the White House declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency, the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government releases its recommendations for combating the illicit businesses behind the epidemic.

On October 26, 2017, the White House announced the nomination of David C. Williams, a distinguished visiting professor within the Schar School of Policy and Government, to the Board of Governors of the US Postal Service. Once confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Wiliams will serve as a member of the Board of Governors until December 2019.  As the governing body of the Postal Service, the 11-member Board of Governors has responsibilities comparable to the board of directors of a publicly held corporation.

The Washington Business Journal’s annual ranking of influential local business leaders list, the Power 100, includes Stephen Fuller, director of the Stephen S. Fuller Institute at the Schar School of Policy and Government.

The second annual Tolchin Symposium at Mason’s Schar School of Policy and Government in Arlington on Oct. 17 featured a panel of women in powerful positions discussing why more women are not in positions of power.

Retired four-star Air Force General Michael V. Hayden has been director of the National Security Agency, the principal deputy director of National Intelligence and director of the CIA.

No matter your political perspective, the first nine months of the Trump administration have been one of fast-moving turmoil. But has this period been dangerous, as some suggest?

As another health care reform proposal wends its bumpy way through Congress, George Mason University professor Jeremy Mayer has identified what he believes is the real reason health care in America is the most expensive in the world: cost pushers.

Schar School 2007 alumna made news—again—this week when she was named Restaurateur of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington. Find out how a Master of Public Policy degree helped Rose Previte earn this distinction.

No U.S. city is prepared for the casualties, chaos and destruction that would follow a nuclear detonation, write Schar School of Policy and Government professor Gregory Koblentz and Mary Sproull, a doctoral candidate in the biodefense program and a biologist with the Radiation Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.