Political Science News and Events

Elizabeth Cohen, associate professor of political science, was quoted in the PolitiFact article, "Sen. Tom Cotton misleads in claim about Dream Act amnesty." Cohen says the claim from Cotton’s office, that the Dream Act could become the biggest amnesty ever granted in the United States, is "completely implausible.

Michael Barkun, professor emeritus of political science, was cited in the Conversation article, "The end of the world is coming – just not this Saturday." Barkun calls the mix of biblical literalism, geopolitics, and astrology “improvisational millennialism” – an attempt to reduce the cacophony of world events into a single comprehensive narrative of higher meaning.