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Empowering refugees through education
Group of students face camera, arm in arm, in front of Perry World House

The student-led Penn for Refugee Empowerment organization offers tutoring and helps refugee-resettlement organizations with after-school programming, child care, home setup, and event assistance.

Empowering refugees through education

The student-led group Penn for Refugee Empowerment offers tutoring and helps refugee-resettlement organizations with after-school programming, child care, home setup, and event assistance.

Kristen de Groot

Public media can improve our ‘flawed’ democracy
Radio microphone and a soundboard with an ON AIR sign.

Image: Fringer Cat via Unsplash

Public media can improve our ‘flawed’ democracy

A new study finds that countries with well-funded public media have healthier democracies, and explains why investment in U.S. public media is an investment in the future of journalism and democracy alike.

Alina Ladyzhensky

The Black Lives Matter movement, but not COVID encouraged voters toward Biden
Group of protesters in masks in the streets, one carries a large sign that reads BLACK LIVES MATTER.

On June 5, 2020, 50,000 protesters marched through the streets of Philadelphia during a Black Lives Matter protest. (Image: Shawn Kornhauser)

The Black Lives Matter movement, but not COVID encouraged voters toward Biden

As swing voters registered more awareness about discrimination against Black Americans, they became more likely to vote for the party they felt would best rectify that—Democrats.

Julie Sloane

Penn Law reacts to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in her office at the court in Washington. (Image: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Penn Law reacts to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

President Joe Biden has selected the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as his nominee to the Supreme Court.

From Penn Carey Law

Former Justice Breyer law clerks share perspectives on his retirement
The Supreme Court Building

The Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

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Former Justice Breyer law clerks share perspectives on his retirement

Statements from Ted Ruger, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, and Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science.

From Penn Carey Law

2020 voting report: By the numbers
Students bend over to fill out paperwork on a table

Students sign up on National Voter Registration Day in September 2021. 

2020 voting report: By the numbers

Penn students voted in unprecedented numbers during the 2020 presidential election, in part due to the voter-engagement program Penn Leads the Vote, which recently won the 2021 ALL IN Democracy Challenge Best Action Plan Award.

Kristina Linnea García

President Gutmann votes at Houston Hall
Amy Gutmann leaves voting booth

President Amy Gutmann emerges from a booth in Houston Hall, just after casting her vote.

President Gutmann votes at Houston Hall

Exercising her civic duty, Penn’s leader participated in Pennsylvania’s 2021 general election.

Penn Today Staff

1 in 3 Americans say they might consider abolishing or limiting Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court building.

1 in 3 Americans say they might consider abolishing or limiting Supreme Court

A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that more than a third of Americans say they might be willing to abolish the Supreme Court or have Congress limit its jurisdiction.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Americans’ civics knowledge increases during a stress-filled year
U.S. Capitol at night.

Americans’ civics knowledge increases during a stress-filled year

The Annenberg Public Policy Center’s annual survey follows increased media coverage of the powers, functions, and prerogatives of the three branches in a year marked by impeachment proceedings and a pandemic.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

What you need to know about the protests in Cuba
Amalia Dache sitting criss-cross applesauce on a sea wall in Cuba reading a book.

Amalia Dache during a research trip to Cuba. (Image: Courtesy of  Santiel Rodríguez Velázquez)

What you need to know about the protests in Cuba

Penn GSE’s Amalia Dache traveled to Cuba in 2018 and 2019 to research the Afro Cuban experience, and the opportunities that existed—or were closed off from—the island nation’s significant Black population.

From Penn GSE