Social Policy

CQ provides news and comprehensive data around the 3 branches of the federal government and federal legislation. It can be used to track and analyze bills, has a deep archive of policy data and provides comprehensive legislative monitoring. There are sections for the analysis of defense, budget, health, house and senate.

POLITICO Pro is a policy intelligence platform covering thousands of topics across 17 industry verticals, four state-specific verticals (California, Florida, New Jersey, New York), and Canada. Access breaking news and top trending articles from hundreds of journalists, a policy event calendar, featured campaign races with candidate biographical details and financial summaries, and primary source documents including bill text and congressional hearing transcripts, with the ability to filter documents by date, document type, state/region, and policy vertical.

Includes over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources

Includes news sources such as the New York Times (1980- ), the Washington Post (1984- ), the Philadelphia Inquirer (1994- ), and the Wall Street Journal (1979- ). Coverage begins for most publications in the 1980's or early 1990's. Sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites.

The Penn Libraries' campus-wide subscription to the New York Times provides digital access to news content only on nytimes.com, including via tablet/mobile apps. This subscription does not include access to NYT Crossword/Games, Cooking, or e-reader editions (e.g. Kindle Fire, Nook).

Searchable full-text articles from 400+ minority-oriented newspapers, 1960- present.

a discovery platform with a wealth of analytics providing fast and reliable access to unfiltered original source news, media and information direct from all branches of the U.S. Federal Government. voxgov enables users to easily find who in government is saying what and when on any subject throughout all phases of the political, legislative and regulatory process

Provides news, objective facts and analysis, and coverage of elections and the politics of legislation,

Full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses. Includes the Philadelphia Weekly (2002- present) and City Paper (2001- 2015). To search just those publications, include in your search Philadelphia Weekly OR City Paper and choose Publication title from the drop-down menu of fields.

Presents a range of resources (news, stats, articles, etc) connected to contemporary and controversial issues

Provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal articles covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

The African American Historical Serials Collection includes African American periodicals, annuals and reports published from 1829-1922 including newspapers

Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change