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Experts address ‘our changing environment’

Economist R. Jisung Park and political scientist Alice Xu address climate change in an event hosted by the School of Social Policy & Practice.

School board elections are latest battleground for polarized national politics

Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences says that noncompetitive school board races are quickly becoming a thing of the past, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Positive and negative, usually both’: In Central America, a booming economy comes at a cost

College of Arts and Sciences third-year Anusha Mathur from Los Angeles explores how the once-remote beach village of Playa Venao in Panama is grappling with the environmental and community costs of newfound prosperity.

Harris County’s voter roll errors—if left unexplained—could fuel claims of voter fraud

Michael Morse of Penn Carey Law says that it’s important to clarify the line between voting discrepancies and any actual issue with disenfranchisement or fraud, since the two are easily conflated.

Lauren Bernstein, Michael Solomonov, Michael Weisberg, and Amanda Freitag pose in front of a Perry World House sign.

Celebrity chefs Amanda Freitag and Michael Solomonov discuss culinary diplomacy

Perry World House hosted a lively conversation moderated by former Visiting Fellow Lauren Bernstein that highlighted how chefs can promote cross-cultural awareness through global culinary engagement.

Trump is excited about these three things

Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences explains why a repeat Trump-Biden presidential showdown in 2024 could play out much like the 2020 and 2016 elections.

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu speaks at Penn's Perry World House.

‘A New Age of Nuclearity? Great Powers and Greater Consequences’

Perry World House’s 2023 Global Order Colloquium took a deep dive into current nuclear issues, looking at how the world will manage nuclear threats amid growing geopolitical tension, climate change challenges, and international conflict.

How the diploma divide came to dominate American politics

In a recent paper, William Marble of the School of Arts & Sciences argues that white voters with college degrees, not just the white working class, drove the political-polarization process.

A person is shown holding a photo of Mahsa Amini, a woman who was killed in police custody in Iran in 2022.

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Marking a monumental death

In honor of the first anniversary of the killing of Mahsa (Jîna) Amini in Iran and the subsequent outpouring of protest, Penn will host a two-day conference on violence against women.

A row of soldiers lying on their stomachs take cover as La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace, is bombed.

The Chilean coup, 50 years later

Two conversations mark the 50th anniversary of the military takeover on Sept. 11, 1973, discussing its political and historical implications.

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