News + Media Current Headlines PhD students Jerik Cruz, Angie Jo, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, and Ye Zhang win APSA Awards July 23, 2026 MIT Political Science Prof. Ariel White wins the Best Article in Civic Engagement from the American Political Science Association July 22, 2026 American Political Science Association Civic Engagement Section Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan develops complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive July 21, 2026 MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems SHASS Faculty Fellows Program is creating space for supportive and interdisciplinary discussion July 21, 2026 School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Prof. Andrea Campbell wins the Best Book in the Field of Class and Inequality from the American Political Science Association July 20, 2026 American Political Science Association Class and Inequality Section More Headlines Op-Ed Valuing human authenticity in the age of AI By Evan Lieberman March 27, 2026 Global Commons Substack The Hormuz Minefield: In the Strait, Iran Holds the Advantage--and America has No Good Options By Caitlin Talmadge March 13, 2026 Foreign Affairs More Op-Eds Quoted “This is not a document the United States agreed to because the war demonstrated a new U.S. military superiority. I think it's a document that has resulted from the fact that the United States bit off more than it could chew and doesn't want to escalate.” — Prof. Caitlin Talmadge June 21, 2026 Boston Globe More Quoted Multimedia Prof. Erik Lin-Greenberg explores how drones are reshaping modern warfare and what this new era could mean for the future of conflict on Plain English With Derek Thompson More Multimedia
PhD students Jerik Cruz, Angie Jo, Gabrielle Péloquin-Skulski, and Ye Zhang win APSA Awards July 23, 2026 MIT Political Science
Prof. Ariel White wins the Best Article in Civic Engagement from the American Political Science Association July 22, 2026 American Political Science Association Civic Engagement Section
Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan develops complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive July 21, 2026 MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
SHASS Faculty Fellows Program is creating space for supportive and interdisciplinary discussion July 21, 2026 School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Prof. Andrea Campbell wins the Best Book in the Field of Class and Inequality from the American Political Science Association July 20, 2026 American Political Science Association Class and Inequality Section
The Hormuz Minefield: In the Strait, Iran Holds the Advantage--and America has No Good Options By Caitlin Talmadge March 13, 2026 Foreign Affairs
“This is not a document the United States agreed to because the war demonstrated a new U.S. military superiority. I think it's a document that has resulted from the fact that the United States bit off more than it could chew and doesn't want to escalate.” — Prof. Caitlin Talmadge June 21, 2026 Boston Globe
Prof. Erik Lin-Greenberg explores how drones are reshaping modern warfare and what this new era could mean for the future of conflict on Plain English With Derek Thompson
