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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Ian Lustick of the School of Arts & Sciences described former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategies to reclaim power. Netanyahu’s trio of tactics include discrediting the new government’s legitimacy, working with allies to use filibusters to delay legislation and create tensions between parties, and encouraging members of the coalition to desert it, said Lustick.
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Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School spoke about the rise, and potential pitfalls, of stock-trading apps. “You’re seeing a medium that was really primarily used for entertainment being used for something else,” she said. “There could be a mixing of entertainment and learning mindsets that could pull younger investors toward less diagnostic information.”
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Ian Lustick of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the implications of the conflict in Gaza, which he believes has cemented Palestinian involvement in the Israeli political system. “Whether their impact on that system is delivered via voting, coalition bargaining, political mobilization, protests, or violence, they will have an increasing impact,” he said.
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Michael Jones-Correa of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the Biden administration’s handling of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum at the U.S. border. “It’s a tricky situation for them politically,” said Jones-Correa. “Given the history of children in cages during the Trump administration, the Biden administration clearly doesn’t want to repeat that.”
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Eve Troutt Powell of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the continued prevalence of blackface in Arab media. “The slave trade in the Middle East was huge,” she said. “And the cultural impact of this slave trade has everything to do with black face in the Middle East.”
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Amy Kaplan of the School of Arts & Sciences pens an op-ed about anti-Semitism and the appointment of Stephen Bannon as the president-elect’s chief strategist.