The Andrea Mitchell Center and the Penn Political Union invite you to a conversation featuring Ian S. Lustick, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and Joe Walsh, former U.S. Representative and conservative political commentator. The…

Changes in US foreign policy, from sweeping cuts to foreign assistance to shifting diplomatic priorities, are sending ripples through humanitarian operations around the world. Those effects are especially resonant in Africa, where conflicts like the civil wars in Sudan and…

“Political cartoons were born with democracy. And they are challenged when freedom is.” — Patrick Chappatte, 2019 Join the Andrea Michell Center and Public Trust for Democracy Under Siege, a film screening and conversation on Tuesday, October 28, 2026 from 5:30-7:30pm, about the…

Rahul Sagar, Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi and author of To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics. The Forum at PCPSE.

Laura K. Field, political theorist and author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. The Forum at PCPSE.

Aziz Z. Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, on the philosophy of the so-called dual state, a political system in which a rule-bound legal system coexists with an arbitrary zone of unchecked executive power, moderated by…