Institute of Politics

From Hurricane Katrina to the LA fires, as the frequency of disasters rises with the changing climate, their politicization amplifies at an even faster pace. Most recently, we saw Democrats playing the blame game after the Los Angeles fires, insidious social media campaigns to undermine FEMA in[...]

Since he was sworn into office in January, President Trump has taken swift and extraordinary measures to realize his campaign promises targeting illegal immigrants and asylum seekers. Chicago, a sanctuary city, has long been at the center of Trump’s hostility; Mayor Johnson recently testified[...]

Since its founding, Pakistan has long held a uniquely important position in global politics and regional dynamics in South Asia across a variety of issues, from energy, trade, and economics to national security. As it does so, Pakistan must frequently contend with multiple, competing priorities and[...]

David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama, invites you to join him in Paris for a conversation on the rise of populism in the U.S. and Europe, fraying relationships among Western countries, and the global implications of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine with Clarissa Ward,[...]

In the last 40 years, South Korea has developed one of the world’s leading economies, growing a substantive geopolitical influence in East Asia. Simultaneously, South Korea has been perceived to be slowly democratizing following the end of authoritarian rule under Park Chung Hee in 1979 and the[...]

Let’s talk crypto, politics and the proper suit to wear on television with Anthony – the Mooch – Scaramucci, an American financier and podcaster who served for ten days as Communications Director in the first Trump White House. Now a crypto evangelist, author of the book The Little Book of Bitcoin:[...]

Is legacy media dead? Do podcasters have all the answers, or just the platform? Why does the right measure stronger online impact than the left? Join Know Your Enemy co-hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell for a conversation on conducting journalism during the Trump administration, reaching[...]

The first 100 days of the Trump administration were exponentially more frenetic for reporters than those of his first term, both in terms of the policies he enacted — often outside the established norms of Congress and the judiciary – and his increasingly fraught relationship with the media. Join a[...]