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.

Watching Trump in Michigan this week talking about Debbie and John Dingell, I was struck by how he spoke the words as well as by what he said. Commentators noted the offenses against Dingell, the universally liked, longest serving Congressman from Michigan, who is recently deceased and unable therefore to respond to the suggestion he may be in Hell not Heaven right now.

Political power is bringing about an ideological re-orientation in the players which may or may not endure.

At the outset of the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, all 100 senators met in the historic old Senate chamber where Webster, Clay and Calhoun, the Senate’s “immortal trio,” established the standards of Senate oratory and deliberation.

In this episode of The Bartholomewtown Podcast, Bill Bartholomew is joined by Brown University Political Science Department Chair Dr. Wendy Schiller for the inaugural installment of the recurring BTOWN series "2020pod", in which the pair will offer perspective and analysis at key moments throughout the 2020 election cycle.

Right since 1945, up until recently, few democratic polities moved from inclusion to exclusion in their citizenship practices and laws. The big exceptions were mostly authoritarian, the Chinese treatment of Uighurs being the most recent. Some democratic polities might have remained as exclusionary as before, but, by and large, when change came about, democratic polities edged towards larger inclusion.

It was a powerful congressional weapon deployed in only the most extreme cases, so explosive that lawmakers feared the wider damage it could do if used for the wrong reasons. Today, the filibuster is an everyday part of Senate business, standard operating procedure in a polarized world where the once rare has become commonplace.

President Trump has finally found a way to make the terrorist threat south of the border suddenly real.

The U.S. House is pressing forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday.

In early November, the state of Rhode Island took control of the Providence Public School District. The takeover came after the release of the “Johns Hopkins Report,” which detailed the district’s academic challenges as well as the bureaucratic problems that have hindered the management of the district.

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Brown University panelists examine history, policy implications of impeachment. Read what Professors Susan Moffitt, Richard Arenberg, James Morone, Eric Patashnik, and Wendy Shiller say at the recent faculty forum on impeachment in The Brown Daily Herald.

Congratulations to Professor Tyler Jost and Professor Sharon Krause on being appointed to Named Chairs.

President Trump is taking a beating from within his own administration on impeachment. And it could get worse by week’s end.

As the Trump administration pulls American troops away from Syria’s northern border, the President has repeatedly insisted that the region’s oil has been “secured,” even going so far as to suggest the United States is now responsible for the fate of the oil.

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, has had several articles published.

Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, in the news.

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, publishes and comments on a variety of U.S. government issues.

From the industrial revolution to the rise of globalization, human society has changed profoundly since our early days as hunter-gathers. But our brains? Not so much. On this episode, Sarah talks with Watson professor Rose McDermott about this evolutionary mismatch, and the vexing problems it creates in our politics and culture.

Federal investigation of Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in Ukraine includes counterintelligence probe.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to constitutional expert Corey Brettschneider about a letter from the White House to Congress, stating the administration will not participate in the impeachment inquiry.

In a recent article, Margaret Weir and co-author Elizabeth Mattiuzzi look at "the new geography of poverty."

“If they are stonewalled now, they’ll take it as further evidence of obstruction. And they can drop all that evidence into a second article of impeachment”

Indian Americans are perhaps not more than 4,00,000 in number, but if Texas becomes a “swing” or “battleground” state, ready for a political flip, even such small numbers might ultimately matter.

Yelena Biberman, Brown University PhD alumnus, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Skidmore recently published her book, Gambling with Violence: State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and India (Modern South Asia), Oxford, 2019.

While examples of left-wing and grassroots movements that use populist discourse abound, we tend to associate populism particularly with the right, political leaders, and authoritarianism. When Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidency in 2018, international media quickly classified him as the latest iteration of the worldwide populist phenomenon.

New York Times publisher and Brown University Political Science alumnus, A.G. Sulzberger '03, gives The Stephen A. Ogden Jr. '60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs about free press.

America has entered a new era of political discourse, experts say: one that allows — even encourages — vitriolic verbal abuse of children and teenagers.

How are Donald Trump’s racist tweets about “rat-infested” Baltimore, his tacit endorsement of chants of “send her home” about representative Ilhan Omar at his rallies, and the mass shooting in El Paso, TX, targeting Latinos by a gunman concerned about a Mexican “invasion” of the United States connected?

Political Science PhD student Rob Grace was recently awarded the Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship for his research on the politics of humanitarian action, with a particular emphasis on humanitarian access obstruction.

The Open Graduate Education Program at Brown grants select doctoral students the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field. The program enables students to bridge two research areas in collaborative and engaging ways, further advancing their studies in each field.

Eight doctoral students were awarded Global Mobility Research Fellowships for the 2019-20 academic year.

The data collection strategies we employ affect the quality of our findings. This is particularly true for field researchers of violence and human rights. Working in high-risk, low-information contexts, these researchers are at greater risk of methodological missteps and the accompanying shortfalls for their findings and policy recommendations. We interrogate one methodological challenge particularly common to research in violent contexts: selection bias.

Recent research shows that a crucial bloc of Democrats is at once more moderate and more radical than its counterparts.

Over the four years during which he has dominated American political life, nearly three of them as president, Donald Trump has set a match again and again to chaos-inducing issues like racial hostility, authoritarianism and white identity politics.

Just because we live in 2019 doesn’t mean everything the doctor offers you is something that’s supported by evidence.

As the Trump administration defends its move to transfer funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other parts of the Department of Homeland Security to immigration enforcement and detention, Democrats and some immigration experts say the White House is defying the will of Congress and possibly federal law.

President Donald Trump and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) agree on one thing: the elimination of the filibuster in the Senate. And now former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has lent his weight to that demand.