The first Thomas S. Foley Award for Distinguished Public Service recipient, four-star Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, will receive the award at a fundraiser for the Foley Institute.  Foley Institute...

Five WSU faculty have been selected as speakers for the Thomas S. Foley Institute Foley Fellows Program. The speakers for this series include Trevor Bond, director of the David G. Pollart Center for...

Anne Pisor, WSU Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Sociality Lab Director discussed adaptation in terms of the effects of climate change Oct. 19 at the Foley Institute. Understanding adaptation...

English professor Peter Chilton shared that the United Nations High Commission for Refugees has found that almost 100,000 people try to leave Africa within West Africa every month and the population of...

Former congressman Bob Inglis led a discussion on the influence of religion and politics on climate science hosted by the Foley Institute on Thursday  Inglis said he believes God reveals himself...

The Foley Institute hosted a presentation on the public’s opinion of climate change and the lack of trust in climate science by Matthew Slater, Bucknell University philosophy professor, on Sept. 7. Slater...

The Foley Institute will implement a course focused on climate change and environmental politics this fall. Political Science 320 is a speaker series course held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from12:05...

“Whenever there is a conversation on Native people, everyone wants to know why. That history is never a short paragraph. It is always that you need to look at federal policy and you need to look back...

As the midterm elections end and results start coming in, an election panel discussed its predictions about which way the results will go at a Foley Talk on Thursday. In five states, slavery is on the...

Politicians casting doubt on the U.S. election system is deeply concerning for political science professor Paul Gronke, who believes it threatens democracy.  “I want to be optimistic, but we are...

The Thomas S. Foley Institute hosted a distinguished lecture on Wednesday about how the criminal justice system targets poor people within the country.  In 2015, Ferguson, Missouri, reportedly...

Spokane NAACP President Kiantha Duncan spoke about the politics of poverty in communities of color Tuesday afternoon at the latest Thomas S. Foley Institute event. The Time’s Up and Black Lives Matter...