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Shapiro Signs $50.1B Budget Bills to Boost School Funding

Zack Hoopes, PennLive

PA Lawmakers, Shapiro Have Approved $50.1B Budget

McGoldrick & Bernard, Inq

Fetterman Defends Voting Record Despite Pushback from Dems

K. Hoffman, CBS

Fetterman’s Memoir Tries to Beef Up the Case for Fettermania

O. Bateman, RCPA

Allegheny County Dems Tout Down Ballot Wins

Julia Zenkevich, WESA

Why Zohran Mamdani Excites the Right

David Mills, Post-Gazette

America at 250 Needs Energy Overhaul

David DesRosiers, RealClearPolitics

Why Did Democrats Actually Fight?

Guy Ciarrocchi, Broad & Liberty

Is Normal Creeping Into Politics?

John Baer, PennLive

PGH Native Jason Lando to Be Nominated as Next Police Chief

M. Guza, P-G

BNY to Relocate Philly Office, Cut Space by Two-Thirds

P. Schwedelson , PBJ

Large Data Center in the Works in Lehigh Valley

Evan Jones, Morning Call

Historic Scranton Electric Building to be New Fidelity HQ

Kat Bolus, WVIA

Philly Is Halting the Use of Some Diversity Targets in Contracts

Anna Orso, Inq

Data Centers Prompt PA to Seek More Say in Regional Grid

Frank Kummer, Inq

Research

PA Voters Bridge Divide in Polling® Event

Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford

Working Class Voters' Role in the 2024 PA Election

Clark, P. F. , Sagepub

New UCLA Data: Latino Voters in PA Could Sway Election

Phan et al., UCLA

PA Ed. Funding Reached $22,000 Per Student

E. Aymond, Commonwealth Foundation

Videos

Sen. Fetterman Says We Need to Talk to Each Other More

Deadly Shooting at Indiana University in PA

Eugene DePasquale Talks Political Landscape

PA Supreme Court Justices on The Ballot

USA Energy Affordability Map

Click on a state to learn more energy facts.

Essential Reading

May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?

The answer, oddly, isn't settled.

The COVID-era Smearing—and Resurrection—of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Bhattacharya’s path from health policy scholar to NIH director nominee is pockmarked with craters from missiles launched to destroy his scientific credibility by NIH leaders and their minions in academia.

Essential Reading

The Cost of Civic Illiteracy

America is in the throes of an epidemic of civic illiteracy that can be traced to a half-century of not teaching the principles, history, and documents of her founding.

The Western Canon Answers the ‘Why’ of Journalism

How one reporter found her start in the Great Books.

In the News

Hans Zeiger, The Fulcrum

Experiential Civic Learning Is Key to Reviving American Democracy
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Substack

Universities Mustn’t Neglect Civics Education

Multimedia

Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin

The Long Road to Juneteenth

Lincoln’s Prophetic Statesmanship with Edward Erler

Podcasts

The Future of America's Shipbuilding Is in Philadelphia

Michael Graham, DV Journal

Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?

John Prideaux, The Economist

Shapiro: Here’s Why Harris Is On Track to Win

Greg Sargent, The New Republic

Why The Candidates Are Investing Time Into Pennsylvania

Sarah McCammon, NPR

Shapiro Signs $50.1B Budget Bills to Boost School Funding

Zack Hoopes, PennLive

The deal involved ending Pennsylvania's attempt to join a multi-state climate change program in exchange for Republicans agreeing to a higher... Read More

PA Lawmakers, Shapiro Have Approved $50.1B Budget

McGoldrick & Bernard, Inq

Pennsylvania lawmakers formally approved the 2025-26 fiscal year budget, ending the impasse that had for months stalled payments to counties,... Read More

Fetterman Defends Voting Record Despite Pushback from Dems

K. Hoffman, CBS

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman defended his voting record and addressed the criticism he's received from some in his own party for meeting... Read More

Fetterman’s Memoir Tries to Beef Up the Case for Fettermania

O. Bateman, RCPA

Hulking Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s memoir is equal parts confession, campaign text, and brand maintenance. It beefs up the... Read More

Allegheny County Dems Tout Down Ballot Wins

Julia Zenkevich, WESA

Allegheny County Democrats claimed big victories in numerous high-profile races last week, but they also picked up offices from tax collector... Read More

Why Zohran Mamdani Excites the Right

David Mills, Post-Gazette

Years ago, an academic friend and I were sitting in a bar downtown, having slipped out of a conference to talk, when a bunch of guys came in,... Read More

America at 250 Needs Energy Overhaul

David DesRosiers, RealClearPolitics

Why Did Democrats Actually Fight?

Guy Ciarrocchi, Broad & Liberty

Is Normal Creeping Into Politics?

John Baer, PennLive

Now comes, instead of focused party unity, a party rift that basically says, `We Democrats were all feeling pretty good. Can’t have that,... Read More

PGH Native Jason Lando to Be Nominated as Next Police Chief

M. Guza, P-G

Mayor-elect Corey O’Connor will nominate Jason Lando to head the city’s police force — a department that has been plagued by a... Read More

BNY to Relocate Philly Office, Cut Space by Two-Thirds

P. Schwedelson , PBJ

Large Data Center in the Works in Lehigh Valley

Evan Jones, Morning Call

An Upper Macungie official confirmed that the township has received a data center plan, but it is still being processed. Read More

Historic Scranton Electric Building to be New Fidelity HQ

Kat Bolus, WVIA

Fidelity Bank is renovating the Scranton Electric Building for its new corporate headquarters. The building was constructed in 1896. Read More

Philly Is Halting the Use of Some Diversity Targets in Contracts

Anna Orso, Inq

The changes made by Mayor Cherelle L. Parker's administration represent a major shift in the city’s diversity initiatives and come as such... Read More

Data Centers Prompt PA to Seek More Say in Regional Grid

Frank Kummer, Inq

A bill that’s part of Pa.'s new budget deal calls for more transparency by PJM Interconnection, an independent organization that manages... Read More

Research

PA Voters Bridge Divide in Polling® Event

Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford

America in One Room: Pennsylvania brings together a representative sample of registered Pennsylvania voters for a statewide Deliberative Poll... Read More

Working Class Voters' Role in the 2024 PA Election

Clark, P. F. , Sagepub

On election day 2024, the headline for CBS News was “Pennsylvania is the top prize among battleground states.” Political experts... Read More

New UCLA Data: Latino Voters in PA Could Sway Election

Phan et al., UCLA

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) released a new data brief on Latino eligible voters in Pennsylvania, marking the... Read More

PA Ed. Funding Reached $22,000 Per Student

E. Aymond, Commonwealth Foundation

Harrisburg, Pa., May 21, 2024 — Pennsylvania per-student spending increased to $21,985 in the 2022–23 school year, according to... Read More

Videos

Sen. Fetterman Says We Need to Talk to Each Other More

Deadly Shooting at Indiana University in PA

Eugene DePasquale Talks Political Landscape

PA Supreme Court Justices on The Ballot

USA Energy Affordability Map

Click on a state to learn more energy facts.

Censorship

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Essential Reading

May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?

The answer, oddly, isn't settled.

The COVID-era Smearing—and Resurrection—of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

In the News

Edward L. Yingling, Princetonians for Free Speech

2025: A Breakthrough Year for Free Speech on Campus
Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner

State Department to shutter censorship agency

Multimedia

Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"

John Kerry Tells WEF: Our First Amendment Stands As A Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out of Existence

House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship

American Civics

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Essential Reading

The Cost of Civic Illiteracy

America is in the throes of an epidemic of civic illiteracy that can be traced to a half-century of not teaching the principles, history, and documents of her founding.

The Western Canon Answers the ‘Why’ of Journalism

How one reporter found her start in the Great Books.