Are political camps and their donors wasting their money? Erin Thomas looks at the psychology of persuasion.

Drawing from decades of work, Professor Meares highlighted three conceptual approaches to gun violence.

Even the most well intentioned discussions of the federal budget can reinforce some bad political and journalistic habits.

Climate scientists are in a unique position to speak to the public about climate change

The ISPS Special Panel Event “Preventing Gun Violence"

In his talk at IDCC, Ewan Birney, Associate Director of the EMBL European Informatics Institute, described how the field of genomics has paved the path to large-scale data sharing. The field now publicly confronts the issues arising from breaches to privacy as a result of such sharing.

On Tuesday, January 22, ISPS inaugurated a new series of workshops on public policy with a panel on the Obama administration’s policy agenda for the next four years. The panel featured three ISPS faculty: Amanda Kowalski spoke about the implementation of the Affordable Care Act; Eleanor Powell dealt with the prospects for filibuster reform; and Vesla Weaver assessed the prospect of immigration reform.

Although overlooked in most news coverage, Congressional procedures play an important role in policy outcomes. Indeed, the fiscal cliff might not have even been an issue if not for the filibuster, which has pushed Congress to employ existing legislative procedures in ways that go beyond their intended purposes and resulted in sub optimal outcomes, such as the fiscal cliff