The Fickell Factor

In January 2025, southern California suffered devastating wildfires. UW experts look at what made the blazes so destructive, how the damage of future fires can be mitigated, and how climate change is affecting homeowner insurance.

Climate change doesn’t just mean rising sea levels, droughts, and floods. It also raises the cost of home insurance as weather causes more and more damage. American Family Insurance’s Ben Wright ’02 talks about how climate catastrophes — such as L...

A pioneering public health expert explains how California’s devastating wildfires relate to a global health problem.

In politics, the economy, and foreign relations, the UW faculty see Donald Trump dominating news and events in the coming year.

A UW political scientist shares his outlook on international relations under a second Trump presidency.

Three professors joined WFAA CEO Mike Knetter for a conversation that applied social science to examine the real-world outcome of the policies Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are proposing.

As the presidential election draws near, Smeeding and other UW experts will interpret how the candidates’ policies will affect life in the real world.

In a wide-ranging conversation, Mike Knetter talks politics with pollster Charles Franklin, jobs and inflation with economist Dana Peterson MS’02, and COVID with physician Nasia Safdar MS’02, PhD’09.

In a summer of political upheaval, Franklin’s polls help make sense out of the chaos.

Over four years and 99 episodes, the series has introduced UW experts to the public so they can help us understand the issues that shape our lives....

In January 2025, southern California suffered devastating wildfires. UW experts look at what made the blazes so destructive, how the damage of future fires can be mitigated, and how climate change is affecting homeowner insurance.

Climate change doesn’t just mean rising sea levels, droughts, and floods. It also raises the cost of home insurance as weather causes more and more damage. American Family Insurance’s Ben Wright ’02 talks about how climate catastrophes — such as L...

A pioneering public health expert explains how California’s devastating wildfires relate to a global health problem.

In politics, the economy, and foreign relations, the UW faculty see Donald Trump dominating news and events in the coming year.

A UW political scientist shares his outlook on international relations under a second Trump presidency.

Three professors joined WFAA CEO Mike Knetter for a conversation that applied social science to examine the real-world outcome of the policies Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are proposing.

As the presidential election draws near, Smeeding and other UW experts will interpret how the candidates’ policies will affect life in the real world.

In a wide-ranging conversation, Mike Knetter talks politics with pollster Charles Franklin, jobs and inflation with economist Dana Peterson MS’02, and COVID with physician Nasia Safdar MS’02, PhD’09.

In a summer of political upheaval, Franklin’s polls help make sense out of the chaos.

Over four years and 99 episodes, the series has introduced UW experts to the public so they can help us understand the issues that shape our lives....