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Shapiro’s Coattails are About to Be Put to The Test
Lisa Kashinsky, Politico
Fetterman: I Haven't Changed. Here's What Has.
John Fetterman, Washington Post
Did Amazon Just Hurt Shapiro’s White House Dreams?
Will Bunch, Inquirer
PA Gov. Shapiro Reelection Campaign Adds $3.6 Million
Zak Hudak, CBS
Mayor Parker Cements Philly’s Sanctuary Policies Into Law
Anna Orso, Inquirer
Illegal Trucker Cases From PA Fuel GOP Crack Down
Charles Creitz, Fox News
PA Bill Aims to End Funding for Youth Gender Procedures
J. Campos, LNP
Six Bills Signed Into Pennsylvania Law
Hayden Thompson, Wtaj
Fetterman Says ‘I’d be a terrible Republican’
Tom Fontaine, Tribune-Review
Democrats Expand Voter Registration Advantage
Nick Field, Pennsylvania Capital-Star

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

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May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?
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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.

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Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"
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House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship

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America’s Civic Values Outweigh its Divisions
Americans of all backgrounds overwhelmingly support a core set of legal and constitutional obligations.
David McCullough and the Study of History
One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.

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More Criminals Using Teens to Move Guns
Claudia Dimuro, PennLive
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

Shapiro’s Coattails are About to Be Put to The Test

Lisa Kashinsky, Politico

The Pennsylvania governor is boosting firefighter union head Bob Brooks in a critical November battleground — testing his power in the... Read More

Fetterman: I Haven't Changed. Here's What Has.

John Fetterman, Washington Post

My party cannot simply be the opposite of whatever President Donald Trump says. Read More

Did Amazon Just Hurt Shapiro’s White House Dreams?

Will Bunch, Inquirer

As public revolts against data centers, emails expose cozy relationship between a tech giant and Pennsylvania’s governor. Read More

PA Gov. Shapiro Reelection Campaign Adds $3.6 Million

Zak Hudak, CBS

Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro raised $3.6 million over five weeks, an aide said. Read More

Mayor Parker Cements Philly’s Sanctuary Policies Into Law

Anna Orso, Inquirer

Parker did not sign one anti-ICE bill that landed on her desk: a measure that bans law enforcement officers from wearing masks. The bill will... Read More

Illegal Trucker Cases From PA Fuel GOP Crack Down

Charles Creitz, Fox News

Pennsylvania Republicans pressure Democrats over bills cracking down on illegal immigrant truckers and CDL mills amid highway safety concerns... Read More

PA Bill Aims to End Funding for Youth Gender Procedures

J. Campos, LNP

Pennsylvania Sen. Chris Gebhard wants the state to stop funding gender transition care for minors, pursuing a policy change that President... Read More

Six Bills Signed Into Pennsylvania Law

Hayden Thompson, Wtaj

Governor Josh Shapiro has signed six bills into Pennsylvania law, centered around midwives, pensions, dental school faculty, the... Read More

Fetterman Says ‘I’d be a terrible Republican’

Tom Fontaine, Tribune-Review

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman says he’d make a terrible Republican. Fetterman, a Democrat from Braddock, has drawn the ire of many in his... Read More

Democrats Expand Voter Registration Advantage

Nick Field, Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Last October, the tide began to turn as Democrats began to pick up ground. 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

More From Real Clear

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he wants to see more funding for public transportation
PA GOP Congressman Slams State Leaders Over ICE Policies
Gov. Shapiro and UT Gov. Cox on State of Politics
Trump Heads to PA to Tout Affordability Push

USA Energy Affordability Map

Click on a state to learn more energy facts.

> 50% 40-55% 30-40% 20-30% 10-20% AK HI AZ UT CO NE OK MS AL GA NC VA NJ RI DE MD CT MA VT ME NY IA ND WI OH KY IL TN SC IN PA NH WV MI MN OR WA CA NV MT WY NM TX FL LA AR SD MO KS ID

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
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.

In the News

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

Sponsored Curation Powered By:

Essential Reading

America’s Civic Values Outweigh its Divisions
Americans of all backgrounds overwhelmingly support a core set of legal and constitutional obligations.
David McCullough and the Study of History
One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.

In the News

Multimedia

Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin
The Long Road to Juneteenth
Lincoln’s Prophetic Statesmanship with Edward Erler

Podcasts

More Criminals Using Teens to Move Guns

Claudia Dimuro, PennLive

The Future of America's Shipbuilding Is in Philadelphia

Michael Graham, DV Journal

With the issues of trade and energy policy front and center in American politics, Jeff Vogel joins the Delaware Valley Journal podcast to... Read More

Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?

John Prideaux, The Economist

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week our hosts travel to the state most likely to decide the election Read More

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

Greg Sargent, The New Republic

As polls show a tight race in Pennsylvania, which Trump cannot lose, Governor Josh Shapiro explains why he thinks Kamala Harris is on her way... Read More


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