A new board game highlights the colonized experience
Departing from games that glorify European conquest, “Promesa” helps players understand Puerto Rico as a modern-day colony.
Departing from games that glorify European conquest, “Promesa” helps players understand Puerto Rico as a modern-day colony.
MIT political science master’s student Milain Fayulu is building brands to bring change to his home country.
In a new book, MIT political scientist Evan Lieberman examines a quarter-century of post-Apartheid government and finds meaningful progress.
Awarded by the Center for International Studies, the prize will help support the PhD candidate's dissertation research on Chinese foreign and security policy.
In annual Compton Lecture, celebrated journalist Martin Baron outlines how a growing disregard for facts undermines civil society in the U.S.
PhD student Paige Bollen finds urban street networks that encourage encounters among strangers link to lower ethnic tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.
MIT anthropologist discusses her new book on ruderal ecologies, her environmental justice class — and how societies can expand their "imagination for how to live otherwise."
Doctoral student Blair Read links rise of private education in India to local political competition, signaling potential erosion of public services.
MIT historian analyzes the uncertain dynamics of a global crisis.
Thirty-six million people in the U.S. use an energy system developed by a handful of activists in the 1990s. An MIT scholar examines this unusual story.
Low-wage workers, who vote infrequently, gain a participation boost when their salaries increase.
Pressman Awards inspire undergraduate engagement in politics and policy, and sometimes a complete pivot in direction.
Professor Edward Schiappa’s new book carefully surveys recent public debates about a vital societal issue.
Political scientist Nazli Choucri discusses challenges and hopes for global coordination on climate issues — and the role of political science in the process.
MIT economist’s new research shows U.S. locales hammered by open trade with China have not rebounded, even a decade or more later.