Q&A: Ceasar McDowell on better public conversation
Professor of civic design and head of We Who Engage MIT talks about rebuilding connections in America.
Professor of civic design and head of We Who Engage MIT talks about rebuilding connections in America.
Political scientist Devin Caughey studies how public opinion influences American politics.
Program aims to increase research opportunities and give PhD students mentorship experience.
Twitter experiment shows clear self-selection into social media “echo chambers” due to political preferences.
The Biden administration must navigate a new set of global challenges, experts say in MIT panel discussion.
Study shows people are influenced more by fact-checks after they read news headlines, not before.
MIT scholars discuss what is needed for the country to support its longstanding form of government.
Guillermo Toral PhD '20 finds health care quality drops in months leading up to mayoral elections, and if the incumbent loses, the quality continues to fall.
The author of “The Narrow Corridor,” about the battle to sustain democracy, weighs in on the country’s political condition.
MIT political scientist Richard Nielsen combines ethnography and big data to analyze clerics and preachers in the Islamic world.
Political science PhD candidate Nasir Almasri studies conflicts that emerge at the intersection of politics and religious traditions, with a focus on humanizing those involved.
Graduate student Ashwin Narayan takes off the fall semester to work on an election information database.
Davis, in conversation with Senior Associate Dean Blanche Staton, fields questions from the MIT community about the current moment of racial reckoning.
Experts analyze a global trend: democratic governments that collapse from within while maintaining a veneer of legitimacy.
MIT political scientist explains the responsibilities leaders have for shaping and sharing factual, truthful information in the nation's political discourse.