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Five takeaways from the Biden-Trump debate
The back of a man wearing a white cowboy hat near an American flag can be seen in front of a television showing the first 2024 presidential debate between Biden and Trump.

Roger Strassburg watches the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a debate watch party Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Five takeaways from the Biden-Trump debate

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, discusses the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Group along with some thoughts on last week’s presidential debate.

Kristen de Groot

Penn Carey Law faculty react to SCOTUS ruling on immunity, social media content
he Guardian of Law sculpture is seen at the west entrance of the Supreme Court in Washington.

The Guardian of Law sculpture at the west entrance of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

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Penn Carey Law faculty react to SCOTUS ruling on immunity, social media content

University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School professors share their reaction to two Supreme Court decisions delivered on the final day of the 2023-2024 term—presidential immunity and social media content.

Soft materials, sustainability, and the environment
Chinedum Osuji.

Chinedum Osuji, a faculty fellow of the Environmental Innovations Initiative and the Eduardo D. Glandt Chair and a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Soft materials, sustainability, and the environment

Chinedum Osuji, a faculty fellow of the Environmental Innovations Initiative, discusses his research and its connections to sustainability and the environment, and how industry and researchers can work better together.

From the Environmental Innovations Initiative

Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector
Cropped Hands Of Journalists Interviewing a politician.

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Duncan Watts and CSSLab’s New Media Bias Detector

PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection.
Stonewall, revolt, and new queer art
jonathan katz sitting in his living room

Jonathan Katz, an associate professor of practice in the Department of the History of Art, pictured inside his West Philadelphia home. Katz led the effort to launch the world’s first graduate queer art history fellowship at Penn.

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Stonewall, revolt, and new queer art

In a new book, art historian Jonathan D. Katz explores the Stonewall Riots and contemporary queer art.

Kristina García

What the recent antitrust settlement means for the NCAA
Indianapolis - Circa March 2018: National Collegiate Athletic Association Headquarters. The NCAA regulates athletic programs of many colleges and universities II

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What the recent antitrust settlement means for the NCAA

Karen Weaver of Penn’s Graduate School of Education, an expert on college sports and higher education, discusses the NCAA settlement agreement and the effect it will have on student-athletes and college sports overall.
States differ widely in requirements for young driver training
A teen driver with a driving instructor.

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States differ widely in requirements for young driver training

A new paper from Annenberg Public Policy Center shows how states differ in licensing requirements for teens, and how the crash rate correlates to training; the authors advise for families of teens to go beyond the minimum state requirements to keep teen drivers safer.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Continued access to emergency abortion care
Supreme Court building with a video camera pointed at the front steps.

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Continued access to emergency abortion care

In dismissing Moyle v. United States, Penn Carey Law’s Allison K. Hoffman says the Supreme Court took a “procedural punt” in allowing doctors in Idaho to continue providing emergency abortion care.

From Penn Carey Law