4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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What Trump’s Win Could Mean for Obamacare Insurance Coverage
Tom Baker of the Law School is quoted about the future of the Affordable Care Act.
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No, Trump Voters Were Not Irrational
Robert Kurzban of the School Arts & Sciences co-authors an article about voter rationality.
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Trump’s Surprise Victory Sends Shock Through Higher Ed
Donald J. Trump’s upset victory in the presidential race early Wednesday morning, after an acrimonious campaign that cast a harsh light on deep racial divisions across the United States, stunned higher-education leaders and left many questioning what his administration would mean for colleges. Mr. Trump’s win represented one of the most surprising results in a presidential election in decades.
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No, Trump Voters Were Not Irrational
Robert Kurzban of the School of Arts and Sciences writes about voter rationality.
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How to Deal With Post-election Disappointment
Michael Thase of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on coping with post-election disappointment.
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Video: Analyzing the Media’s Role in the 2016 Election
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center joins a discussion about the role of the media in the 2016 presidential election.
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On Election Night, Colleges Watch as a Glass Ceiling Stays Put
They arrived at the field house full of optimism — hundreds of Wellesley students, alumni, and faculty members, ready to celebrate the election of one of their own as the first female president of the United States. They wore stickers that read “Nasty Wellesley Woman” and “Making the Impossible Possible,” a reference to the commencement speech that Hillary Clinton delivered there as a senior, in 1969. “This is going to be the most fun this campus has seen in 100 years,” predicted a giddy 1998 graduate on the bus to the election-night watch party.
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Here’s How Democrats Should Respond to Trump’s Win
Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education shares his thoughts on how Democrats should respond to Donald Trump winning the presidential election.
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Trump Victory Seen Boosting Pennsylvania’s Gas and Coal Industries
Mark Alan Hughes of the School of Design and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy says, “The Obama administration’s environmental policies are vulnerable because many of them are the result of executive action, and therefore can be undone by the incoming administration.”
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Donald Trump’s Call for Change Answered
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says, “This has been an election, more than any in my lifetime, that has been fought on traits – personal characteristics.”