It takes a congressman to know Congress.

While some Penn students were partying away on the beach in Mexico and others were at home binge-watching Netflix, some students spent their Spring Break making a difference.

Presidential candidates and College juniors Aiden McConnell and Jane Meyer shared their views on a variety of campus issues.

The push for PILOTs has gone from Penn President Amy Gutmann's house to City Hall.

Members of the Penn Law School community believe weapons on campus only encourage more violence.

Trump launched an exploratory committee on Wednesday.

The faces of the Russian counterculture took the floor last night.  The Slavic Languages Department and Perry World House brought Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, two of the founders the Russian band Pussy Riot to Penn for a question and answer session on Tuesday.

The report makes clear that the mostly-white city government systematically and intentionally used the police and courts to extract money from the mostly-black population. It was not simply that the government’s composition did not reflect that of the electorate, the government was acting directly against the majority’s interests.

The endorsement was publicly confirmed on Monday at the John B. Kelly School in Germantown on Monday, though union members had been alerted of the news by email the previous Friday.

Amidst campus controversy over Penn’s recently unveiled sexual assault policy, a bipartisan group of 12 U.S. senators reintroduced a bill establishing guidelines for colleges to adjudicate sexual assault complaints on Feb. 26.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has proposed a 9.34 percent increase in property taxes for Philadelphia in an effort to offset the School District’s $80 million deficit for the upcoming school year and to answer their plea for additional funds.

The convention to elect the next Democratic nominee for president will be held at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016.

For a few Penn professors, politics is not only something to teach — it’s something that runs in the family.

The project worked with 190,000 tweets over a six month period between September 2013 to February 2014 that included “#commoncore.”

Pennsylvania is currently one of the 32 states with the death penalty.

Student-run PACs at other schools are rare.

SAM SHERMAN is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email is samsherman6@gmail.com