Kathleen Brown's new book sheds new light on the abolitionist movement.
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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.
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.
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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.
People pass the front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on March 22, 2023. Brinkmanship in Washington over raising the U.S. debt ceiling has begun to raise worries in parts of the financial markets.
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Three things to know about the debt ceiling fight
Economist Harold L. Cole of the School of Arts & Sciences offers an overview of what could happen should the U.S. default on debt payments because no spending deal is reached.
Kristen R. Ghodsee’s new book offers a radically hopeful vision for how to build more contented and connected societies, alongside a practical guide to what we all can do to live the good life each and every day.
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‘Everyday Utopia’—a radically hopeful vision for contented and connected societies
In her new book, Kristen R. Ghodsee of the School of Arts & Sciences takes readers on a tour through history and around the world to explore places that have dared to reimagine how we might live our daily lives.
Smoke rises from a building in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 19, 2023. The U.S. conducted its first organized evacuation of citizens and permanent residents from Sudan on April 29, two weeks into the conflict.
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Crisis in Sudan: A Q&A with Ali Ali-Dinar
The Sudanese scholar and senior lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies offers some background that led to the recent violence and potential paths to peace.
A time to celebrate for inaugural SNF Paideia Fellows
The first cohort of fellows is set to graduate, taking with them the pillars of the SNF Paideia Program—dialogue, citizenship, service, and wellness—on their next life adventures.
Bodong Chen of the Graduate School of Education (right, at podium) discusses his project that focuses on helping integrate sustainable development goals into schools in China.
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Symposium highlights breadth and depth of Penn Global research
The Penn Global Research and Engagement Fund is supporting the 19 new faculty-led projects that span research, capacity-building, and development efforts across Africa, Latin America, India, China, and beyond.
Nabil Fahmy, former Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. and former Foreign Minister of Egypt, spoke during the Middle East Center’s conference on nuclear issues in the region.
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Nuclear issues in the Middle East and North Africa
Nabil Fahmy, former foreign minister of Egypt and Egyptian ambassador to the United States, spoke on campus about the current state of nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament in that region.
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Image: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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A detailed look at the history of The Affordable Care Act
In a new book, Penn political scientist Daniel J. Hopkins offers a detailed study of Americans’ opinions about the Affordable Care Act and examines to what extent political elites can reshape public opinion through their words or policies.
Jared Mitovich (left) and Tyler Jenkins-Wong were PORES student fellows at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Out of the classroom and into the newsroom
Student fellows in the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies put their data-analysis skills and political know-how to use in creating user-friendly visualizations and enhancing traditional reporting practices.
