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Penn Carey Law’s Jasmine E. Harris on conservatorships
A person wearing a t-shirt with Britney Spears face on it holds a pink flag with the slogan #FreeBritney.

A Britney Spears supporter waves a “Free Britney” flag outside a court hearing concerning the pop singer’s conservatorship at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse on June 23, 2021, in Los Angeles.

(Image: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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    • Penn Carey Law’s Jasmine E. Harris on conservatorships

    Harris, an expert in disability and anti-discrimination law, discusses the history of conservatorship agreements, how they can be problematic, and why now is the time to do more than just overhaul the system.

    Kristen de Groot

    Disability in America
    Judy Heumann is applauded during her swearing-in as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Service in 1993.

    Judy Heumann, center, is applauded during her swearing-in as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Service by Judge Gail Bereola, left, in Berkeley, California, on June 29, 1993. At left is Berkeley Mayor Loni Hancock with sign language interpreter Joseph Quinn, and Julie Weissman, right, in attendance. Heumann, a renowned disability rights activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, died on March 4, 2023.

    (Image: AP Photo/Susan Ragan)

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    • Disability in America

    In a Q&A, history and sociology of science professor Beth Linker discusses the history of disability in America.

    Kristina García

    Reinventing customary law in medieval France
    Historian Ada Kuskowski listens to a speaker sitting next to her at a table.

    Ada Maria Kuskowski is a medieval and legal historian. 

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    • Reinventing customary law in medieval France

    A new book by historian Ada Maria Kuskowski of the School of Arts & Sciences traces the formation of customary law as a field of knowledge in medieval Europe.

    Kristen de Groot

    Unpacking the NATO summit
    U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are seated next to each other, separated by a side table with flowers and in front to the American and Ukrainian flags on each side of them. Behind them is a sign reading NATO/OTAN Vilnius Summit/Sommet.

    U.S. President Joe Biden (right) and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023.

    (Image: AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

  • Q&A

    • Unpacking the NATO summit

    Alexander Vershbow, the former deputy secretary-general of NATO and current Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Perry World House, offers his takeaways from the two-day gathering.

    Kristen de Groot

    How climate change affects roses
    Rose garden view with ornamental planters.

    A view of the rose garden at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens.

    (Image: Rob Cardillo)

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    • How climate change affects roses

    In a Q&A, Erin Conley of the Morris Arboretum & Gardens explains how climate change affects rose growth, as well as what’s new in the Morris’ rose garden. 
    PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger
    Golfer Phil Mickelson holds a golf club standing on grass and looks into the distance, bending at the waist, in front of a LIV Golf sign and a rock wall.

    Phil Mickelson at the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., in July 2022.

    (Image: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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    • PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger

    In the wake of the controversial golf deal, Benjamin L. Schmitt of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Kleinman Center discusses “sportswashing,” malign influence campaigns, and steps global democracies can take to prevent it all.

    Kristen de Groot

    The risky business of homeowners insurance
    Homeowners inspect the ruined remains of their property after a fire. Rubble, a chimney, and a rusted truck are all that's left.

    State Farm, the largest insurer in California, has stopped writing new home insurance policies in the state, citing “rapidly growing catastrophe exposure.”

    (Image: iStock/VladTeodor)

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    • The risky business of homeowners insurance

    State Farm, the largest insurer in California, has stopped writing new home insurance policies there, citing “rapidly growing catastrophe exposure.” In a Q&A, Wharton’s Benjamin Keys discusses climate change and its risk to the real estate market.

    Kristina García

    Smoke safety: What to know and how to keep safe with poor air quality
    A person crosses the Schuylkill River on a blue bike. The city skyline behind him is obscured with smoke haze.

    A person cycles past the skyline in Philadelphia shrouded in haze, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside.

    (Image: AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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    • Smoke safety: What to know and how to keep safe with poor air quality

    Olajumoke O. Fadugba of the Perelman School of Medicine addresses why smoke irritates the body, why people with allergies and asthma are particularly affected, and how to stay safe. Writer: Kristina García

    Kristina García

    ‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’
    Left side of image shows a book cover reading "Undoing Slavery" and the right side of the image shows the author, Kathleen Brown.

    Kathleen Brown's new book sheds new light on the abolitionist movement.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Press/Kathleen Brown)

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    • ‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’

    Historian Kathleen M. Brown’s new book reexamines the antislavery struggle and is the focus of the first episode of a new podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

    Kristen de Groot

    Harun Küçük on the Turkish elections
    Supporters of Turkish President Erdogan wave Turkish flags in the street at night after his runoff win.

    Supporters of the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate outside AK Party offices in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 28, 2023. Turkey’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared victory in his country’s runoff election, extending his rule into a third decade.

    (Image: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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    • Harun Küçük on the Turkish elections

    Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center and associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, shares some takeaways from the runoff elections and what five more years of Erdogan means for Turkey and the world.

    Kristen de Groot