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Can Harris ride memes all the way to the White House?
ABC News

Can Harris ride memes all the way to the White House?

Pinar Yildirim of the Wharton School says that people who vote for the Democratic Party tend to skew younger, which makes them harder to reach through traditional media.

Can an algorithm break antitrust law?
Marketplace (NPR)

Can an algorithm break antitrust law?

Joe Harrington of the Wharton School discusses how antitrust laws are holding up to new technology like third-party pricing algorithms.

Why the Fed is being blamed for the historic stock-market plunge
Business Insider

Why the Fed is being blamed for the historic stock-market plunge

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the recent stock market decline is due to the Federal Reserve rather than the coming presidential election or geopolitical tensions.

‘Slow Burn’ and the daily consequences of climate change
A factory chimney spilling smoke into the sky.

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‘Slow Burn’ and the daily consequences of climate change

From lower test scores to higher crime rates, economist R. Jisung Park of the School of Social Policy & Practice looks at the daily consequences of climate change.

Kristina García

Venezuela’s disputed election and unrest
A crowd of people protesting the election in Venezuela.

Government supporters rally in defense of President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 30, 2024, two days after the disputed presidential election.

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Venezuela’s disputed election and unrest

Ángel Alvarado, a senior fellow in the Department of Economics and former Venezuelan congressman, shares his thoughts on the power struggle and ongoing crisis. 

Kristen de Groot

The political shockwaves of America’s falling birth rates
Politico.com

The political shockwaves of America’s falling birth rates

Jagadeesh Gokhale of the Penn Wharton Budget Model has built demographic models that show immigration’s huge growth impacts on the nation’s population levels.