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

Abraham is the second candidate to visit Penn this month, following Former City Councilman Jim Kenney’s visit last Tuesday.

Republican legislators in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives just took the first step to get Pennsylvania out of the liquor business.

A referendum this week will reveal if Penn students support fossil fuel divestment, but the vote is only the first step in a long process leading to change.   Starting Monday, Penn undergraduates can vote in a referendum on whether or not they believe the University should divest from fossil fuels.

Signs were confiscated, protesters were led out by police and both charter school applicants and opponents made last minute appeals on Wednesday evening. At the peak of the testimony, about 150 people filled the auditorium during a special meeting of the commission to announce the decision at the headquarters of the School District of Philadelphia.

Climate change is scary. 2014 was the hottest year on record. Scientific predictions of climate change impacts are being realized as we encounter more extreme storms, rising sea levels and devastating droughts.

A group of state senators have been working hard to make Pennsylvania the 24th state to legalize medical marijuana.

Jim Kenney is a former City Councilman.

Oil will be an integral part of the United States economy for decades to come.  In 2013, US oil consumption increased by 400,000 barrels per day and the trend in 2014 followed suit.

After six years of offering no substantial policy alternative to President Obama and his administration, the new Republican Congress has seemingly found its silver bullet: the passage of the Keystone XL pipeline by both houses. The pipeline will travel from the oil fields of Alberta to Nebraska, traversing about 1,100 miles with most of it being built in the United States.

The Fox family has donated over $33 million since 1999. 

US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, has been named the 2015 Commencement Speaker.