Opinion
Claudia Li | The Grammys 2017
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
James Lee | The quest for nuance
To fellow PPE majors - have you noticed just how difficult it is to explain the major to non-Penn people?
Langston MacDiarmid | Managing finances
LANGSTON MACDIARMID is an Engineering senior from Pittsburgh, PA.
Guest Column by Whitney Stewart, Ryan Furey and James Heibert | Speech does not preclude action
As the leaders of Penn’s largest political organization, the Government & Politics Association, we decided not to co-sponsor the March for Immigrants held to condemn President Trump’s recent string of executive orders.
Ben Claar | @realDonaldTrump
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
Isabel Kim | This is not a column about Trump
It’s only my third column of the semester, and I am already wracking my brains to think of something to write about.
James Fisher | From the bottom of the barrel to Penn: Already at a disadvantage
The minute I stepped out of my uncle’s car and arrived at Harrison College House, I should have known that my life would change forever.
Brad Hong | Hunting habits of the lone vegetarian
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
Editorial | With choice of Booker, an opportunity lost
Commencement should, in our view, aim to broaden the horizons of departing students one last time – to be one last lesson before graduates leave the academic sphere.
Calvary Rogers | Unboxing Black history: the white moderate
Allyship is not found in those who wear a safety pin, but in those who dedicate their efforts towards diminishing the inequities that cause protests in the first place.
Bryn Friedenberg | Public service announcement
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College junior from Kirtland, Ohio.
Joe Tharakan | The power of the purse strings
On Monday, 97 Companies issued a joint statement going against the “Muslim Ban” executive order.
Michael Palamountain | An appreciation of labor and a critique of leisure
Despite the title, this article will not serve as some sort of rallying cry to raise the minimum wage nor will it attempt to explain the complicated nature of universal basic income.
Claudia Li | Presidential valentine
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
Toe the Line: Penn Democrats | Immigration policy
One week after his inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order indefinitely halting the resettlement of Syrian refugees and temporarily banning people from seven Muslim-majority nations from traveling into the United States.
Toe the Line: College Republicans | Immigration policy
“We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain: give up your dreams of freedom, because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” – Ronald Reagan, 1964 Today, we face a different enemy, with different victims, and a different immorality.
Group Think | Discussing Cory Booker as commencement speaker
GROUP THINK is The DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
Editorial | Don't let the message of the marches fade away
We commend the participants of these marches, but we implore students to use these protests as an opportunity to revisit issues on our own campus, to channel this level of intensity and energy into tangible fixes within our own community.
Amy Chan | The conversation of empathy
Contrary to what most people told me before leaving, my first experience studying abroad in England was not a pleasant one.