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U.S. Representative from the 4th District of KY and MIT alum Thomas Massie generously shared his time, expertise, and advice with students in our MIT Washington Summer Internship Program. @MIT @MIT_SHASS polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/mit-…

“The overarching pattern we find is that if you compare people who live in compound houses to residents of other housing types...there is a pretty big difference in political actions,” says Prof. Noah Nathan. news.mit.edu/2026/how-archi… @noahlnathan @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS

Professor Lily L. Tsai has been named the next Concourse faculty director, starting August 1. Concourse is a first-year program that brings science into conversation with the humanities. gue.mit.edu/news/introduci…

Summer is a great time to read The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft (Prof. @eriklg ) and Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines (Prof. Mariya Grinberg).

Some of the most important things in life feel ordinary, until you stop and think about what makes them possible. A cure. A car. A comet. Someone right now is chasing answers to questions we haven't even asked yet. This is #CuriosityOnAMission. 🔬 What are you curious about? curiositymission.org

Prof. @AdamBerinsky co-authored "Understanding and Combatting Misinformation Across 16 Countries on Six Continents." It won Best Publication from the Behavioral Science and Policy Association at their Annual Meeting last week. polisci.mit.edu/.../article-un…... @MIT_SHASS

"How do you design the machine to be contributing to normatively positive outcomes," @mitpolisci professor and MIT Governance Lab director and founder Lily Tsai asks. Tsai sat on the AI and Politics panel during the AI and Society Forum held Tuesday 5/12.

@MIT_SHASS captured some memorable images of our Political Science students and faculty at the SHASS Advanced Degree Ceremony. Congratulations! @MIT_CIS @MIT #MIT2026

At today's commencement reception, Prof. David Singer presented the Lucian Pye Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis to Yui Fung Raymond Wang. Congratulations to all our graduates! #MIT2026 @MIT @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS @StudiesMit4226

Congratulations to our Political Science PhDs! Front row: Suzanne Freeman, Wenyan Deng, Ye Zhang, and Diana “Tingxuan” Zhu. Back row: Sukrit Puri, Nicholas Blanchette, Eleanor Freund, Eyal Hanfling, Raymond Wang, and Wright Smith. #MIT2026 @MIT @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS @StudiesMit4226

Science is Curiosity on a Mission: It includes all of us who ask "why" and make it our mission to find out. These are the discoveries that move the country forward. The pursuit of ideas that seemed impossible until they weren’t. #CuriosityOnAMission

“I have yet to meet a professor that cares more for their students.” Prof. Danny Hidalgo, who studies democracy and political behavior in Latin America, is honored as “Committed to Caring” for graduate student mentorship.news.mit.edu/2026/committed… @fdhidalgo @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS @MIT

“Anxiety about A.I. in politics is often anxiety about persuasion itself, displaced onto a new technology,” @MITPoliSci professor @AdamBerinsky says of AI and its impact on American political campaigns. nytimes.com/2026/04/28/opi… @nytimes

“At MIT, both aerospace engineering and political science take a fact-based approach to their work,” senior, master's candidate, and airman Brian Robinson says. news.mit.edu/2026/built-to-… @MITPoliSci @MITAeroAstro @MIT_SSP

Target opened its first store in a Minneapolis suburb, Roseville, in 1962. It was the same year that discounters Walmart and Kmart also launched their first stores, said Kathleen Thelen, a professor of political science at MIT.

Congratulations to Professor Kathleen Thelen who has been named to the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows, which includes 223 trailblazing artists, scientists and scholars across 55 fields. #2026-fellows" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gf.org/stories/announ… @MIT_SHASS @MIT_CIS @MIT

“The EO is a logistical nightmare and clearly represents magical thinking – leaving aside constitutional issues,” @MITPoliSci professor and @MITelectionlab director @cstewartiii says of the Trump Administration's EO regarding mail-in balloting. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

PhD student @DCebul has been selected to receive a World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship by the Smith Richardson Foundation for his PhD dissertation research. polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/phd-… @StudiesMit4226 @MIT_CIS @MIT_SHASS @MIT

“[They] tracked politicians’ fights about the wars more than the events of the wars themselves,” according to @MITPoliSci professor @AdamBerinsky. He's cited in a @nytimes piece about the Middle East conflict. nytimes.com/2026/04/04/mag…

Prof. Andrea Campbell has been selected as a @MIT_SHASS Faculty Fellow. During her Spring 2027 fellowship, she will work on a book, “The Coming Return of Senior Insecurity.” shass.mit.edu/twelve-profess…