Author: stepht@duke.edu

Approximately 40 female Duke students gathered for nearly five hours on Sunday, March 5 to participate in an interactive campaign workshop.

Two Duke University women engage in a civil conversation about the issues surrounding abortion and reproductive rights.

March kicks off with two big events in the first week: a national conference on redistricting and a student-focused workshop on running for elected office. We’re also continuing our biweekly Wake to Fritz breakfast series, which you can read about below.

Running Start, a nonpartisan national organization that trains women on how to run for elected office, will be on Duke’s campus March 5 to lead a half-day workshop for college women.

https://soundcloud.com/user-853595532/episode-13-drug-legalization Duke students Sarah Faller and Alec Lintz civilly discuss their opinions regarding the issue of drug legalization. Sponsored by POLIS, Duke’s Center for Political Leadership,…

Last month POLIS launched “The Purple Project” by leading and collaborating on a series of events aimed at finding common ground among Red and Blue America. This month we begin putting this idea into action.



https://soundcloud.com/user-853595532/episode-12-campaign-financing Two Duke University students debate the merits and challenges of various campaign finance laws–particularly contribution limits.  Sponsored by Duke’s Center for Political Leadership, Innovation,…

The fifth year of the Duke in DC domestic study away program brings with it a renewed focus on bipartisanship and bridging the political divide.

Fritz Mayer, Director of POLIS was a featured speaker at Durham’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration. Read his remarks.

Check out what’s happening at POLIS during the month of January.

Sanford Faculty Jenni Owen has been named Governor Cooper’s Policy Director. We wish her well with her new position in Raleigh!

This letter was written to Sanford School of Public Policy Alumni and Friends from Dr. Fritz Mayer following the 2014 elections.

Congratulations to POLIS Steering Committee member Professor Nick Carnes for his publication in the American Political Science Review!

POLIS’ new podcast series, The Devil’s Discourse, is now available!

Check out what’s happening at POLIS in December.

Two Duke University students debate the ideas surrounding safe spaces on campus.  Sponsored by Duke’s Center for Political Leadership, Innovation, and Service. Photo Credit: University…

Duke University’s on-campus early voting site ended the voting period with the largest number of voters of any of Durham’s secondary early voting sites.

What’s happening at POLIS in November 2016.

We are proud of what POLIS has been able to accomplish in such a short time, but we are even more excited about what is ahead. If this political season has demonstrated anything, it is that the twin missions of POLIS—to seek solutions to the problems that plague our politics and to develop the next generation of political leaders—could not be more critically needed.

The new media environment, gender, race and class are all important themes of 2016 Presidential Elections, according to national experts who spoke at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy’s annual “Sanford on the Hill” event at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on July 12.

Former UNC President Tom Ross has been named president of the Volcker Alliance, a nonpartisan organization aimed at rebuilding public trust in government.

On March 3rd and 4th, business and political leaders from across North Carolina gathered at Duke to look for common ground and solutions for increased economic opportunity for North Carolinians.

Macon Phillips, Trinity ’00, spoke about how to use technology to engage people in politics in a talk at the Sanford School of Public Policy Wednesday, February 10.

On Feb. 29, the eve of the Super Tuesday Primary, three comedians who host radio talk shows for SiriusXM Insight will perform stand-up comedy at Duke University’s Page Auditorium.

When we arrived at Perkins Elementary School at 6:35PM, we quickly realized it would be an exciting caucus night. The registration line stretched far outside the gym where the vote was set to occur, stretching down the hall, out the school’s main doors, and down the sidewalk.

Early voting is returning to Duke’s campus for the upcoming primary election in North Carolina.

UNC system President Emeritus Thomas W. Ross has been named the first Terry Sanford Distinguished Fellow at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.