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Sahil Kapur of NBC News is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

JD Vance says GOP should threaten a shutdown: 'Why have a government if it’s not a functioning government?' Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government or risk a shutdown.

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The CMC Washington Program offers firsthand experiences and life-changing outcomes for 5C students who spend a semester living and working in our nation’s capital.

Built around a full-time internship in D.C., combined with a rigorous academic curriculum, the Washington Program has long offered students deep experiential learning illuminated by a liberal arts education. This fall, internships include working with U.S. representatives and senators, as well as for the Securities and Exchange Commission, NOAA’s Office of Space Commerce, and CNN.

To learn more about the program, students are invited to an information session this Thursday (Sept. 12) at 7:15 pm in Davidson Lecture Hall, located in Adams Hall. The director of the program and recent program alumni will be available to answer your questions.

The application deadline for the spring semester is this Sunday (Sept. 15).

For additional information: https://www.cmc.edu/washington-program

Helena Bottemiller Evich is an alum of Claremont McKenna College. She is speaking at the Ath on Monday.

From Institution to Individual: Food Fix's Immediate Success - A Media Operator Helena Bottemiller Evich left Politico to launch Food Fix and on day one, she had paying subscribers.

Professor Andrew Orr is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

Facing the Victorious Turks At the end of World War I, parts of the defeated Ottoman Empire were seized and partitioned by the Allied Powers. In response, the newly formed Turkish Natio...

George Ashford is a student at Claremont McKenna College.

Understanding single-stair reform efforts across the United States - Niskanen Center Single-stair building code reforms, once a niche subject of mere speculation by disgruntled architects, have become law in several states and have positive legislative momentum in several others.

Hilary Appel, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, recently presented this paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa24/index.php?program_focus=view_paper&selected_paper_id=2148744&cmd=online_program_direct_link&sub_action=online_program&fbclid=IwY2xjawFLzsdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ4CP4m5XdRvsKWXNdMPNl0H2xEI61FejCKoBUlaVeeKJmXxfzXM5ZPsYg_aem_zq_TL3MngYHr_oRtlC-SbQ

Ukraine's EU Accession Challenge: Reforming EU’s Budgetary/Institutional Hurdles Before Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the likelihood of Ukraine joining the European Union (EU) was a distant prospect at best. Enlargement fatigue plagued many member states, the financial costs of membership were especially high, concerns over corruption and the quality of governance dama...

Claremont McKenna College professor Nick Buccola recently presented this paper at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Rethinking “Whose Fourth of July?” Douglass, Mills, & Radical Liberalism In “Whose Fourh of July?” Charles Mills argued that “everything” Douglass claimed in “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” is “wrong”. In this essay, I reconsider Mills’s argument in the light provided by his later defense of radical liberalism.

At the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Claremont McKenna College's Professor Lisa Langdon Koch received the Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award for her book Nuclear Decisions.

Chad McElroy is a student in the Claremont McKenna College Washington program.

Today, at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association there will be a screening of War Game, starring Claremont McKenna College alum Steve Bullock.

Advanced Screening of War Game This session is a screening of the documentary, War Game, a real-life political thriller set on January 6, 2025, War Game imagines a nation-wide insurrection in which members of the US military defect to support the losing Presidential candidate, while the winning candidate and his advisors—played...

“For Plato, the purpose of government is to advance human excellence and advance human virtue,” says Mark Blitz, a professor of political philosophy at Claremont McKenna College in California. “Ultimately for Plato, the ‘best’ form of government turns out to be the rule of philosophers. But the fundamental questions of the Republic are: What is justice? And what are the limits of justice politically?”

What Are Plato's 5 Forms of Government? | HISTORY In Plato's 'Republic,' the ancient Greek philosopher lays out five different forms of government, ranging from ideal to oppressive.

Mike Madrid is coming to speak at the Claremont McKenna College Athenaeum.

The Latino Century Mike Madrid has been a nationally recognized political consultant and authoritative voice on Latino voters for three decades. As a pioneer in Latino communications and outreach strategies for state, local, and national political campaigns, Madrid is one of the few consultants who has successfully wo...

A new report from the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College.

Kosmont-Rose Institute annual survey finds Los Angeles-area cities impose high costs on business The 2024 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey finds that the cost of doing business remains higher in California than in other states in the western United States. Within Southern California, cities in Los Angeles County are the costliest places to do business. Researchers

Jon Shields is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College.

J.D. Vance, Former Cultural Conservative Contrary to the man who wrote “Hillbilly Elegy,” the GOP’s vice presidential candidate now blames a rigged system for the working class’s problems

Joanna Stanberry is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

Recognising Ecological Reflexivity: An Alternative Approach to Partnership Capabilities for Collaborative Governance Ecological reflexivity provides a key lever for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but is underexplored in one prominent context: collaborative governance particularly associated with SDG 17. Using an exploratory study and novel approach to Q methodology, we investigate c...

Tina Hossain is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

How to Build Adaptability for HR, People, and L&D Leaders: A Recording (and Highlights!) from our Recent Webinar Overwhelmed by the pace of change in HR and L&D? Gain valuable insights from industry leaders at Amazon and PeakHR in our latest webinar. Learn how to build adaptability, support your team, and navigate challenges effectively.

Carlos Rivas is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

About | Carlos Rivas for Chicago School Board Carlos is running for Chicago School Board because he believes that every student deserves a quality education and should be able to count on their school as a pillar of their support system, just as he did.

Jessica Melugin is an alum of Claremont McKenna College. https://simonlegacy.cei.org/

Claremont McKenna College student Chumnan Jim Sangsvang '26 has been awarded the coveted Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, known as the Voyager Scholarship.

Created by former U.S. President and First Lady, Barack and Michelle Obama, in partnership with Brian Chesky, Airbnb co-founder and CEO, the scholarship honors emerging leaders and their dedication to public service and a more inclusive democracy.

Sangsvang, of Burleson, Texas, is the third Claremont McKenna College student to earn the award. Last year, Ivanna Morales Mercado '25 received a 2023-2025 Voyager Scholarship, following Michael Gadinis '24, who was named to the inaugural 2022-2024 cohort.

With this award, Sangsvang, an International Relations major, plans to explore the importance of music in cultural diplomacy, and how music affects society and political change.

Chumnan Jim Sangsvang '26 earns Obama Voyager Scholarship /PRNewswire/ -- Chumnan Jim Sangsvang '26 has been awarded the coveted Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service, known as the Voyager Scholarship. Created...

Richard Morrison of the Competitive Enterprise Institute is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

Interventions, Easy Money Run Amok "An obvious set of perverse incentives simply stimulate more risk-taking by corporate management and investment firms in the future, resulting in even bigger future bailouts down the road. At a certain point this strategy of holding the wolf by the ear will become untenable." ~Richard Morrison

Claremont McKenna College alum Richard C. Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear & Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy, recently led the U.S. delegation for the 2024 U.S.-ROK Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Committee in Seoul. The photo shows him in the middle of the table on the right.

Ryan Lenney is a student at Claremont McKenna College.

Long Beach homelessness Supreme Court ruling leads to enforcement changes

Alex Griffing is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

Trump Asked to Respond to RFK Jr. Calling the Vaccine He Helped Create ‘The Deadliest Vaccine Ever Made’ “RFK Jr. has falsely said that the COVID vaccine is the deadliest vaccine ever made. What’s your response to that?” the reporter asked.

Professor Kenneth Miller is director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. Quentin Carney is a student at Claremont McKenna College.

Inland Empire races will help determine how progressive the Legislature will be Today, the composition of the Assembly is 62 Democrats, 16 Republicans, and one vacancy. In the Senate: 31 Democrats and 9 Republicans.

Cesar Vargas Nunez joins the Claremont McKenna College Government Department as an Assistant Professor of Government. His research focuses on the causes and effects of the welfare exclusion of vulnerable communities. Specifically, he focuses on understanding the consequences of healthcare exclusion and the factors that shape public attitudes toward providing welfare to undocumented immigrants. The results of his research agenda contribute to our understanding of partisan attitudes, political ideology, public health, political behavior, and inequality. His research has received support from the Fulbright Spain Commission, the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (Ford Dissertation Fellowship), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Pitzer College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.

Sahil Kapur of NBC News is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

5 things to watch at the 2024 Democratic convention with Kamala Harris Democrats will be getting a different convention, with a different candidate, from what they expected at the start of the summer.

Claremont McKenna College alum Andy Barr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and starting and growing Uplift, a digital first agency that delivers creative content, ad buying services and strategic communications to Democratic campaigns. He has kind words for CMC at about 11 minutes in.

Digital Communications in the Progressive World with Andy Barr of Uplift - The Great Battlefield Podcast Andy Barr joins The Great Battlefield podcast to talk about his career in politics and starting and growing Uplift, a digital first agency that delivers creative content, ad buying services and strategic communications to Democratic campaigns.

Helena Bottemiller Evich is an alum of Claremont McKenna College.

Helena Bottemiller Evich on Gov. Tim Walz's Free Lunch Program Helena Bottemiller Evich is the founder of FoodFix