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Public Policy
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.
Penn Political Union hosts AG Loretta Lynch
The first female African American attorney general discussed everything from her thoughts on law enforcement reform to her most memorable cases.
Martin Baron on the future of news and importance of investigative journalism
The former executive editor of The Washington Post spoke with Fels Distinguished Fellow Elizabeth Vale as part of the Fels Public Policy in Practice series.
In the News
Donald Trump, evangelicals and the 2024 MAGA coalition
Shawn Patterson Jr. of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Donald Trump was largely an apolitical figure in 2016 with a wide array of celebrity relationships, donations to candidates of both parties, and a career in New York real estate.
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The U.S. has a new strategy for combating foreign election interference, but is it working?
According to Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, democracies are based on common understandings, among them that rival political factions will accept election outcomes and work to win back power at the next opportunity.
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How a rave with Bill Nye and Quavo turned out droves of early voters at City Hall
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that some celebrities aren’t helpful to political candidates because their followers are already engaged and have already made up their minds.
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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.
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Boeing workers want the pension plan restarted. It won’t happen
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School says that companies didn’t initially contribute enough to defined benefit pension plans to make them viable for the long run.
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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson knows about working with people you disagree with—and learned this strategy from her own mentor
According to a poll from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, more than half of Americans currently disapprove of the Supreme Court.
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