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Fetterman on His Fight Against Party Orthodoxy
Salena Zito, WaPo
How PA Voters Feel About Trump, Fetterman Amid War
J.D. Prose, PennLive
Pittsburgh Readies for Surge of NFL Draft Visitors
J.D. Prose, PennLive
Bills Addressing Data Centers Pass State House
Frank Lesnefsky, Times-Tribune
Shapiro Doubles Down on Fight Against Rising Electricity Prices
A. Kramer, NOTUS
Do PA Hunters Need More Land to Hunt?
Kurt Bresswein, LehighValleyLive
Drafting Pittsburgh
Brandon McGinley, Post-Gazette
Temple Has Lost Average of $200M Annually as Enrollment Slides
S. Snyder, Inq
Diocese of Scranton Welcomes Over 300 New Catholics
Sarah Scinto, WVIA
Shapiro Confirms Eagles Future Location
Jeff Kerr, Eagles Today

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?
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.

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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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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

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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
Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?
John Prideaux, The Economist
Shapiro: Here’s Why Harris Is On Track to Win
Greg Sargent, The New Republic

Fetterman on His Fight Against Party Orthodoxy

Salena Zito, WaPo

How PA Voters Feel About Trump, Fetterman Amid War

J.D. Prose, PennLive

Pittsburgh Readies for Surge of NFL Draft Visitors

J.D. Prose, PennLive

Bills Addressing Data Centers Pass State House

Frank Lesnefsky, Times-Tribune

As data center proposals continue to emerge locally and statewide, the state House passed two bills from local legislators aimed at... Read More

Shapiro Doubles Down on Fight Against Rising Electricity Prices

A. Kramer, NOTUS

Shapiro again threatened to pull Pennsylvania out of its grid operator and announced a victory halting electricity rate increases for... Read More

Do PA Hunters Need More Land to Hunt?

Kurt Bresswein, LehighValleyLive

Drafting Pittsburgh

Brandon McGinley, Post-Gazette

In middle school, nothing made me happier than going to gym class and seeing the floor hockey nets out. I knew it was going to be a rare day... Read More

Temple Has Lost Average of $200M Annually as Enrollment Slides

S. Snyder, Inq

Temple's retention and enrollment issues have compounded budget pressures that the university is already facing, according to an internal... Read More

Diocese of Scranton Welcomes Over 300 New Catholics

Sarah Scinto, WVIA

The Diocese of Scranton welcomed more than 300 new Catholics this Easter into the church. Catholic churches all over the country are seeing... Read More

Shapiro Confirms Eagles Future Location

Jeff Kerr, Eagles Today

The Philadelphia Eagles have a decision to make in the coming years regarding the future of Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles' current... 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

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

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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