News + Media Current Headlines PhD student Katharin Tai receives World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship April 4, 2025 MIT Political Science Prof. Adam Berinsky's book Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It wins Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center April 1, 2025 Harvard Kennedy School Building trust in science through conversation and empathy March 13, 2025 MIT News A leg up for STEM majors February 25, 2025 MIT Political Science MIT Human Insight Collaborative launches SHASS Faculty Fellows program and names Professors Richard Nielsen and Volha Charnysh in the inaugural group February 19, 2025 MIT SHASS More Headlines Op-Ed Lessons from Donald Trump’s South African doppelgänger, Paul Kruger By Evan S. Lieberman February 23, 2025 The Daily Maverick Professor M. Taylor Fravel: China's Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction By M. Taylor Fravel, George Gilboy, and Eric Heginbotham September 6, 2024 War on the Rocks More Op-Eds Quoted “I call it a messaging [executive order] because there’s so much in the executive order that will get political pushback or defeat in the courts that I doubt much of any of it actually will be enacted, certainly at the federal level in this administration.” —Professor Charles Stewart III on President Trump's executive order on US elections March 27, 2025 Boston.com More Quoted Multimedia Undergraduate Siddhu Pachipala on the science part of political science: "We have a rigorous understanding of why decisions turn out the way they do." More Multimedia
PhD student Katharin Tai receives World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship April 4, 2025 MIT Political Science
Prof. Adam Berinsky's book Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It wins Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center April 1, 2025 Harvard Kennedy School
MIT Human Insight Collaborative launches SHASS Faculty Fellows program and names Professors Richard Nielsen and Volha Charnysh in the inaugural group February 19, 2025 MIT SHASS
Lessons from Donald Trump’s South African doppelgänger, Paul Kruger By Evan S. Lieberman February 23, 2025 The Daily Maverick
Professor M. Taylor Fravel: China's Defense Spending: The $700 Billion Distraction By M. Taylor Fravel, George Gilboy, and Eric Heginbotham September 6, 2024 War on the Rocks
“I call it a messaging [executive order] because there’s so much in the executive order that will get political pushback or defeat in the courts that I doubt much of any of it actually will be enacted, certainly at the federal level in this administration.” —Professor Charles Stewart III on President Trump's executive order on US elections March 27, 2025 Boston.com
Undergraduate Siddhu Pachipala on the science part of political science: "We have a rigorous understanding of why decisions turn out the way they do."
