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...
Denied from congressional internships, Joseph Fernando felt he was hitting a brick wall that would halt his dream of making a difference on the Hill. But when he transferred to George Mason University from Virginia Tech, the opportunities he encountered and the skills he honed equipped him to be accepted to all three internships he applied for ...
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.
The economic sanctions the United States imposed on Iran could strain relations with U.S. allies in Europe, who see Russia as a much bigger threat, a George Mason University professor said.
Researchers at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, in conjunction with SSR Industries of Cambridge, Mass. and Washington, D.C., have discovered evidence of foreign manipulation in the 2018 Missouri Senate race.