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Listen to David Daley on the Threat of Partisan Gerrymandering (MITCHELL CENTER PODCAST)

Dec 10, 2019

Episode 1.6: Partisan Gerrymandering and Democracy Deserts

Video Now Available of PPU DEBATE WITH JEB BUSH: MERIT-BASED IMMIGRATION

Nov 25, 2019

Click here to see the video of the November 12 debate. The motion carried 24-14, with one abstention. See the end of the video for the breakdown by caucus.

Listen to Evan Taparata on the History of US Refugee Policy (MITCHELL CENTER PODCAST)

Oct 25, 2019

Episode 1.3: No Asylum for Mankind

Watch JOE SOSS on the Criminal Justice System as Revenue Racket

Oct 25, 2019

Available at www.reverberations-of-inequality.org

Listen to Marlene Laruelle on Russian Interference (MITCHELL CENTER PODCAST)

Oct 18, 2019

Episode 1.2: Understanding Russian Interference features MARLENE LARUELLE from our "Democracy in Trouble?" Series.

Listen to the MITCHELL CENTER PODCAST

Oct 4, 2019

Episode 1.1: "The Enduring Threats to Voting Rights" features ARI BERMAN, from our "Democracy in Trouble?" series. 

Mitchell Center Kicked Off Its "Reverberations of Inequality" Series with a Day-Long Conference Featuring Economist Raj Chetty

Sep 26, 2019

Penn Political Union Resolves 24-17 that the US Should Support the Hong Kong Protesters

Aug 23, 2019

IN THE INAUGURAL EVENT OF THE 2019-2020 academic year, the Penn Political Union's five parties debated the resolution, "The US should lend political and economic support to the Hong Kong protesters." After vigorous arguments on both sides, the nearly 50 attendees voted in favor of the resolution (with some abstaining), 24 for and 17 against.

Mitchell Center Sponsors "Eleventh Thesis" Conference to Plan Series of Publications

Jun 3, 2019
A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE sponsored by the Mitchell Center, on May 24 and 25, brought scholars and practitioners together in Philadelphia for the purpose of planning a series of publications inspired by the dictum in Marx's Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach: "Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."

UPDATE: Evan Taparata's Dissertation Also Wins the University of Minnesota Best Dissertation Award in the Arts and Humanities

May 22, 2019
In addition to recognition by the Immigration & Ethnic History Society, Evan has received the University of Minnesota Graduate School's 2019 Best Dissertation Award in the Arts & Humanities.