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The erosion of democratic values in the Republican Party is a function of, and enabled by, our electoral and governing institutions that are not designed for modern American politics.

The position of mayor of the City of Fairfax is an important one in the relationship between George Mason University and its Fairfax Campus hometown. Happily, the new mayor, Catherine S. Read, is an alumna of the Schar School. She made the trip up University Drive from City Hall at the invitation of the Gender and Policy Center. Read about it on the Latest News page.

Goldstone’s research has recently been honored with the Distinguished Career in Political Sociology Award, the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Career Award, and the Myron Weiner Award for his contributions to the field of political demography from the International Studies Association.

"I would expect to see regular families in our region starting to have some real problems, probably in no more than a week or so," said Clower, director of the Schar School’s Center for Regional Analysis.

Members of the Schar School’s Democracy Lab living-learning community for first-year students attended a luncheon hosted by the Virginia Foundation for Research and Economic Education (Virginia FREE) last week at the Ritz-Carlton at Tysons, Virginia.

In a global first, the Schar School’s Center for Business Civic Engagement partners with Romania’s Babeș-Bolyai University to address advancements in intelligent automation.

An innovative program to fund unpaid federal internships for Schar School students launches. Read more about the Federal Workforce Initiative.

The featured results of a Washington Post/Schar School poll revealing growing diversity in American home schooling.

Schar School Professor Justin Gest is among political experts interviewed for an op-ed about the importance of the upcoming 2024 elections.

A groundbreaking study uncovers where four of the world’s most dangerous illicit trade centers are located. The report also reveals who allows them to persist and succeed.

A pandemic-era boom has fundamentally changed the face of American home schooling, transforming a group that has for decades been dominated by conservative Christians into one that is more racially and ideologically diverse, a Washington Post-Schar School poll finds.

A Schar School researcher turned the pages of history and discovered Nazi sympathizers in 1935—in the U.S., and they were abundant.