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Building Skills: SPA Program Offers Tools to Solve Real-World Problems
More than 1600 students and AU alumni have benefited from 38 different in-person and online courses.
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Congress to Campus Hits SPA
Former Lawmakers Promote Compromise and Collegiality on Visit to AU Classes
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Historic UAW Election Is Bringing Profound Changes to the Autoworker Union’s Leadership
An historic election for the United Auto Workers union is expected to bring changes to leadership, chances of better pay, more strikes, and higher car prices.
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To the Point: Why Classified Documents are Popping Up Everywhere
Distinguished Professor of History Allan J. Lichtman answers our question of the week
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Three Facts and a Fiction: Not-So-Secret Documents
What are the security impacts of Presidents Biden and Trump stashing classified documents at their homes?
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Three Facts and a Fiction: House of Pain
Distinguished Professor Emeritus James Thurber reflects on the recent turmoil in the US House of Representatives.
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Friends First: AU Roommates Set Example for Bipartisanship
Noah Burke, SIS/BA ’22, and Aidan Levinson, SPA/BA ’23, hope their work together as student associates at the Sine Institute serves as an example that civility is alive and well amongst the next generation of political changemakers.
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Mental Health, Local News Decline Among Issues for Sine 2023 Fellows
As a non-partisan platform for policy innovation and discussion of some of the nation’s most pressing challenges, the Sine Institute plays an essential role in American University’s commitment to prepare the next generation of changemakers
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AU Experts Talk Midterms, Election Fallout
A group of American University administrators and professors explained how the election played out and why Republicans didn’t gain as many seats as they’d hoped.
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Race and Reproduction in the Post-Roe World
Antiracist Research and Policy Center hosts panel of leading Indigenous feminists, feminists of color, and their allies
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