Hindsight 2020
Will the “guardrails” that held in 2020 work in 2024?
Thinking About Ukraine
Penn faculty examine the conflict from multiple perspectives—sometimes clashing, sometimes meshing, and often thought-provoking. Plus: Mike Logsdon C’03’s photographs from Ukraine.
Calling It
How John Lapinski and a squad of Penn faculty and students backing him up on the NBC News Decision Desk navigated an election season that was unprecedented—and could set a pattern for the future.
Power to the Protest
Daniel Gillion on why protests matter.
No Politics Is Local
Dan Hopkins on The Increasingly United States.
Political Science and Economics Shift North
Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics opens.
E Pluribus, Polarization?
Political polarization less pronounced than partisans predict.
YouTube Diplomacy
Heard on Campus: “Alec, you have to explain YouTube to the mullahs.”
Toward a More Perfect Union
Whoever wins the White House will confront challenges and opportunities that were lost in the fog of electioneering. Penn scholars address five areas that the campaigns muddled, ignored, or failed to think big about.
Anatomy of an Uprising
As rebellion rocked Egypt in early 2011, several Penn scholars had unusually intimate perspectives on the action.
After WikiLeaks
Overreaction could do more damage than anything revealed
in the leaked diplomatic cables.
Lowering the Temperature
The threat of terrorism is real, but America’s response to it is dangerously counterproductive, writes Penn political-science professor Ian Lustick in this excerpt from his new book, Trapped in the War on Terror.
Beyond Basic Training
Middle East Center helps officers prepare for Iraq duty
Why They Fight
Muslim motivation: Faith or flag?
Politically Incorrect—Lying Ads, Trusting Voters
The truth is, lying political-ads work.
Delli Carpini Chosen to Lead Annenberg School
Annenberg Dean vows to maintain “quality and reputation.”
Students “wage peace” in Houston Hall
Penn Students Against War on Iraq.
Reinventing Iraq
Brendan O’Leary on constructing democracy in post-war Iraq.
Lines in the Sand
Graduate alumnus and director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute Harvey Sicherman on war in Iraq and peace in the Middle East.
Dr. DiIulio Goes to Washington
DiIulio to head White House office for faith-based programs.
Dom Sweet Dom
Dr. Ronald Pope Gr’75
The China Syndromes
A wide-ranging interview with Penn's resident China expert, political science professor—and alumnus—Avery Goldstein.
Who’s a Jew in Israel? Anyone but an Arab?
Ian Lustick on Israel as a "non-Arab" state.
Homage to a Visionary
Celebrating Strausz-Hupé