'Chaos tempered by chaos': Penn event criticizes Trump's decision to pull out of Syria

Brendan O’Leary, director of the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict, offered his insight on the consequences of the withdrawal and its future implications. 

Researcher Amy Hawthorne discusses Egypt's recent authoritarianism at Middle East Center

The lecture, titled “A New Authoritarianism: Egypt in the Age of al-Sisi,” was organized by Penn’s Middle East Center. 

Annenberg research shows Twitter’s maximum tweet length increase promotes civility

The research team studied 358,242 tweet replies to American politicians between January 2017 and March 2018, both before and after Twitter's character limit increased.