On Nov. 5, 2024, United States citizens will vote to elect candidates to political office. Since 2016, white nationalist extremism has exponentially increased in the United States. The Carnegie Endowment...
*Editor’s Note – 4/28/25: This article has been edited to address concerns related to the Trump administration's recent actions against students on college campuses. This change was made to protect...
Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) has decided not to seek reelection in this year's election. McMorris Rodgers’ decision is poised to leave a significant void in the Republican...
The Washington state presidential primary on March 12 approaches rapidly, yet many students lack enthusiasm about the election.
In past years, Whitman students have been amongst the top voting...
Since 2011, the Ben Rabinowitz Award has been given in honor of Whitman College President Tom Chronin to support projects that seek to promote compassion in medicine, politics or on-campus projects. The...
Visiting Professor of Sociology Matteo Bortolini from the University of Padua, Italy gave a talk in Olin Auditorium titled “Civil and Uncivil Religion: Politics, Religion and the Public Square in the...
With Democrats currently holding on to a razor-thin majority in the House of Representatives and Senate, the outcome of the 2022 midterms may be decided in a handful of toss-up elections. Several of these...
The short-term appointment of the United Kingdom’s ex-prime minister Liz Truss has created controversy in Britain's political atmosphere. Mary Elizabeth Truss announced her resignation on Oct. 20 after...
Charlie Hunter, Campus Life Reporter
• September 22, 2022
This past spring, Whitman College’s environmental studies department piloted a three-week long field study course in conjunction with anthropology and politics. The course traveled from the Wallowa Valley...
In 2021, the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education released a national report including data on student participation in voting from Whitman College. According to the report, 78 percent of voters...
We care about politics because we care about people, but if that’s truly the case, then we must change the way we talk about politics. When we talk about ideology and a “humanizing” approach, we...
Despite the fact that Whitman’s namesake, Marcus Whitman, was a religious missionary, today Whitman has no institutional religious affiliation. This is a topic students in politics professor Stan Thayne’s...
