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MIT Department of Political Science

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"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.

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

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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!

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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

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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

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“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.https://t.co/OMvpaLSHNV
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“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. https://t.co/xsDspmXb4z @nytimes

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“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. https://t.co/4WIHoOeGly @MITPoliSci @MITAeroAstro @MIT_SSP

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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.

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Kathleen Thelen spoke with @USATODAY about Target's impact on America. “The discounters created a do-it-yourself model, where they were putting all this stuff out in ways that were accessible to shoppers,” she says. https://t.co/2q1qE3vBon @MITPoliSci

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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.

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“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. https://t.co/Uf38bHMf97

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PhD student @DCebul has been selected to receive a World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship by the Smith Richardson Foundation for his PhD dissertation research. https://t.co/PkWDDrwRwJ @StudiesMit4226 @MIT_CIS @MIT_SHASS @MIT

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“[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. https://t.co/jLPuOE48lW

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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.”
https://t.co/d8GZrJCE6v

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“This war isn’t only about what happens in the current cycle,” @MITPoliSci professor and @MIT_SSP affiliate @ProfTalmadge says. “It is about re-establishing Iranian deterrence for the next war.” https://t.co/YP00iqe3fb @nytimes

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The March/April MIT Alumni News features a cover story about Institute Professor Suzanne Berger's leadership of the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing. @MIT_alumni @MIT_CIS @MIT_SHASS

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Check out this MIT SHASS Senior Profile of Political Science and Urban Planning dual major Lauren Higgins!

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@MITdusp's Mrinalini Penumaka and @MIT_SSP's Julia Lodoen are the recipients of the 2025 Jeanne Guillemin Prize awarded by @MIT_CIS. The Prize provides essential funding for female graduate students conducting research in international affairs.
Read more about their research and graduate experiences here: https://t.co/cPMyPHBn4T

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“I would argue that there has been absolutely no regime change here. No institutions have been changed. It’s a leadership decapitation explicitly designed it seems to avoid regime change,” says @proftalmadge of US operations in Venezuela.https://t.co/wJQZEbNsFb
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Eighteen MIT faculty have been honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2025-2027. Political Science Professor @fdhidalgo is among them.

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