Public health agencies are losing trust, which may be hard to win back.

In April 2020, Susan Moffitt co-edited the volume, "The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic" with Eric Patashnik (Brown University) as well as co-authoring an article in the volume with Paul Testa (Brown University) and Marie Schenk (Brown University). The piece focuses on American policy and practice in response to the epidemic, as well as exploring the question: "Where do we go from here?"

India's first week of a nationwide 21-day lockdown in response to the coronavirus has shined a brutal spotlight on the plight of the country's most vulnerable citizens.

The American Workingmen's Parties in the 1828–32 period occupy a distinctive place within the history of socialism: they were the first to embrace a strategy of organizing a working-class political party and seizing the democratic state for their collective self-liberation. With universal suffrage, a working-class majority could take political power electorally and expropriate the rich. Karl Marx read about these workers’ parties through works by Thomas Hamilton and Thomas Cooper in the period of his early political development.

When it comes to pithy lines about dishonesty, writer Mary McCarthy's takedown of playwright Lillian Hellman remains a timeless classic. "Everything she writes is a lie," said McCarthy, "including 'and' and 'the.'" McCarthy died before Donald Trump became president, and wherever she is, she is undoubtedly glad she did. But any literary exaggeration by Hellman is mere chicken feed compared with the steady flow of falsehoods to which the nation is subjected daily by the president, who's responsible for bringing the word "pathological," previously used only by medical professionals, into common usage. As Trump likes to say: "No one could have imagined it. We've never seen anything like it."

Richard Arenberg, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs of the Watson Institute at Brown University, joined Joe Paolino Jr. to discuss the latest political news, the race to determine a Democratic nominee for president, how bipartisanship has fallen out of favor and the continuing situation surrounding the Coronavirus, on the show that aired March 15, 2020 on ABC6.

As the new coronavirus has spread around the world, many people have begun to rely on online maps to understand it. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University used a software package called GIS to create an interactive dashboard with a map, numerical data and charts.

Two years ago, Bernie Sanders journeyed south to trace the history of a past revolution, and to imagine a new one. On April 4, 2018, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., thousands of people gathered on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, for a rally and a march. Sanders was one of the speakers.

Katherine Tate: 2020 and the Black Vote

Rich Arenberg: 2020, the filibuster and 34 years working at the US Capitol

Rachel Meade: 2020 and populist movements

On Monday night, the Iowa caucuses ended in chaos. More important, the partial results released on Tuesday suggest that the Democratic path to the White House remains rocky.

The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of 17 Visiting Scholars for the 2020-2021 academic year. While in residence at RSF in New York City, they will pursue research and writing projects that reflect the foundation’s commitment to strengthening the social sciences and conducting research to “improve social and living conditions in the United States."

Either the NPR journalist is unusually terrible at geography, or the State Department has issued a misleading statement.

Wendy Schiller, Chair of Political Science, Brown University, on the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. Hosted by Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney.

They are challenging the BJP's attempts to narrow the national identity.

The US Senate formally received the articles on impeachment from the House on Thursday.

The whole process has been more colourful, and dramatic, than your standard Congress fare.

In The Art of War, Sun Tzu wrote that speed is “the essence of war.” While he of course did not have amphetamines in mind, he would no doubt have been impressed by their powerful war-facilitating psychoactive effects.

Most Americans pay little attention to judicial nominations. As a result, for many, the most significant and lasting effects of the Donald Trump presidency have been happening largely under the radar.

Fall 2019, in POLS2580 Quantitative Research Methods, graduate students present their research posters.

In a newly released book, “Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs,” Peter Andreas, a professor of international studies at Brown University, has drawn from an impressive and eclectic mix of sources to give psychoactive and addictive drugs a fuller place in discussions of war.