Who, What, Why: Rich Lizardo on poverty in early modern Spain
The history Ph.D. candidate’s work traces the evolution of the ideas, institutions, and images of poverty in early modern Spain and highlights how much of the current debates on poverty echo those of the past.
A Penn Global Seminar looked at the driving forces behind China’s climate policy, and took students to the United Arab Emirates to see some of those decarbonization efforts in action.
A voter’s finger is inked after casting a ballot inside a polling station, in Casablanca, Morocco, during general elections on Sept. 8, 2021.
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Young voters and online civic education
A collaborative new study by Guy Grossman of the School of Arts & Sciences and co-authors looks at the effects of low-cost online interventions in encouraging young Moroccans to turn out and cast an informed vote in the 2021 elections.
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.
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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.
The Supreme Court is seen behind flowers on June 27, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court gave a win for the democratic principle of checks and balances in affirming that state courts can weigh in on legislative decisions affecting federal elections, but justices also left an opening for future challenges.
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Five takeaways from the Supreme Court’s latest election law decision
Penn Carey Law’s Michael Morse, an expert in voting rights and election law, shares his thoughts on Moore v. Harper and what it means for American democracy.
Patrick Carland-Echavarria, an East Asian Languages and Civilizations Ph.D. candidate, says his research is all about readjusting the lenses of history.
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Who, What, Why: Patrick Carland-Echavarria and queer Americans in post-war Japan
Ph.D. candidate Patrick Carland-Echavarria’s research looks at postwar Japanese queer cultures, translation, art, and literature and at how American gay men found refuge there during the Cold War and beyond.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District.
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Kimberly St. Julian Varnon on the short-lived insurrection in Russia
The history Ph.D. candidate discusses the shocking weekend revolt and march on Moscow by Wagner Group militia members.
Arielle Alterwaite’s dissertation uses archives in seven different countries to explore Haiti's sovereign debt in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution.
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Who, What, Why: History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite looks at Haitian debt
Her work on Haiti’s sovereign debt in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution holds lessons for what is currently happening there and more broadly for conversations around reparations.
Annenberg Classroom, part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has released a documentary “Juneteenth: Exploring Freedom’s Stories” that surveys the history of the holiday.
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Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history
A new documentary produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center explores the history of the holiday and illustrates how and why freedom and citizenship were intertwined. The film features Berry and Roosevelt, among others.
Phil Mickelson at the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., in July 2022.
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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.
