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Penn students get convention access in extraordinary political times
students at the dnc pose for a group photo

(On homepage) Eisenhower and Margolies have been taking Penn undergraduate students to the Democratic and Republican conventions every presidential cycle since 2000—except for 2020, due to the COVID pandemic—as part of their Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns course, offered every four years.

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Penn students get convention access in extraordinary political times

Undergrads who attended the Republican or Democratic convention this summer are breaking down their experiences during the Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns course, taught by David Eisenhower, Marjorie Margolies, and Craig Snyder.
The U.S. spies who sound the alarm about election interference
The New Yorker

The U.S. spies who sound the alarm about election interference

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that the Foreign Malign Influence Center’s warnings about election interference are being drowned out by partisan noise.

People are used to seeing death. Why were TMZ’s Liam Payne photos too much?
The Washington Post

People are used to seeing death. Why were TMZ’s Liam Payne photos too much?

Jessica M. Fishman of the Annenberg School for Communication and Perelman School of Medicine says that even highly sanitized images of death in the news ignite disgust and outrage, despite death’s prevalence in American media.

Graph shows how Americans’ trust in SCOTUS is falling
Newsweek

Graph shows how Americans’ trust in SCOTUS is falling

A survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that the American public has less trust in the U.S. Supreme Court now than it did before the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.