The Institute of Politics announced its new executive team on Monday morning without holding an election, bypassing the traditional process because none of the top four positions were contested.

John F. Kirby, a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and former senior spokesman for the Pentagon, State Department and White House, has been appointed director of the University of Chicago’s ...

Africa has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics ...

Setti Warren, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a former mayor of Newton, died suddenly over the weekend. He was 55. Harvard Kennedy School Dean Jeremy M. Weinstein and Harvard ...