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Extreme Avoidance
A future of abundant, affordable, sustainable energy is achievable—if politics doesn’t stand in the way.
Reconstructing America’s Story
Kermit Roosevelt launches a provocative interpretation of the Declaration of Independence.
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.
Point, Counterpoint
Debate can improve education and save democracy.
Protect and Elect
Kathy Boockvar C’90 is in charge of making vote by mail work in PA.
Power to the Protest
Daniel Gillion on why protests matter.
Quaker Moderator, Times Two
Andrea Mitchell CW’67 Hon’18 and Ashley Parker C’05 shared a stage.
Beyond Labor: A Missing Piece in the Immigration Debate
Wharton study: immigrants boost investment and entrepreneurship.
Competing Visions of the Global Order
“Competing Visions of the Global Order” at Perry World House.
The Electoral Road to Autocracy
“Democracies don’t die like they used to.”
Jeb Bush Nabs Presidential Professorship
Jeb Bush is a Presidential Professor of Practice for 2018–19.
Who is America?
GOP nativists have taken aim at a fundamental principle defining the American republic: birthright citizenship. Their legal rationale has an unlikely source: a liberal professor who totally opposes their aims. And that’s just where things start to get interesting with Constitutional law scholar Rogers Smith.
Confirmation and Its Discontents
Anita Hill on 1991 and 2018.
The Path to Peace in a Tribe of Tribes
Restitching the dis-United States.
The Moments Pick You
Deferred dividends.
This Is Your Brain on Politics
Can brain imaging help heal extreme partisanship?
Standing Athwart History
Annenberg’s Al Felzenberg on his William F. Buckley bio.
The Judges’ Lawyer
In successfully defending the irascible Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase—aka “Old Bacon Face”—against impeachment, Joseph Hopkinson C1786 G1789 helped set a high bar for removal from office and establish the principle of judicial independence.
Morning Tweets and Arching Eyebrows: A Reporter’s Story
On the White House beat.
Lawmakers, Lawbreakers
A new book examines crime and pragmatic politics in India.
Democracy for Sale
Voter fraud vs. incentives, from Berry’s Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich.
One (Last) Brief Shining Moment
Robert Kennedy speaking at the Palestra, 1968.
Political Graffiti
Signs of the times in Cuba.