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Shapiro Is Suing Trump Over Mail Voting and Voter List
Fallon Roth, Inquirer
120,000 Pennsylvanians Have Dropped ACA Insurance
Nicole Leonard, WHYY
PA Jails Paid Millions to Detain Immigrants for ICE
Kate Huangpu, Spotlight PA
Why PA Doesn't Have Junk Food Rules for SNAP
Charles Thompson, PennLive
A Promising Plan to Spur Housing Wrecked by Congress
Editorial, Tribune-Review
How Early Pennsylvania Shaped the Easter Bunny Tradition
Amaris Manning, WHYY
House Candidate Criticized for Maternity Leave Cuts
S. Roth, Washington Examiner
The Possible Mars-Adams Merger Hits Mars PA
S. Ocneanu, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
O’Connor Brings Millions from Nonprofits for Projects
Hallie Lauer, Post-Gazette

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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Americans of all backgrounds overwhelmingly support a core set of legal and constitutional obligations.
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More Criminals Using Teens to Move Guns
Claudia Dimuro, PennLive
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Michael Graham, DV Journal
Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?
John Prideaux, The Economist
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Greg Sargent, The New Republic

Shapiro Is Suing Trump Over Mail Voting and Voter List

Fallon Roth, Inquirer

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are both suing the Trump administration over the president's executive order to restrict mail voting and create a... Read More

120,000 Pennsylvanians Have Dropped ACA Insurance

Nicole Leonard, WHYY

High monthly premium payments without enhanced tax credits, coupled with high costs of daily living, have caused some to cut insurance. Read More

PA Jails Paid Millions to Detain Immigrants for ICE

Kate Huangpu, Spotlight PA

A group of Pennsylvania counties that have detained immigrants for ICE billed the federal government more than $21 million in recent years. Read More

Why PA Doesn't Have Junk Food Rules for SNAP

Charles Thompson, PennLive

The Trump administration thought it had a win for its “Make America Healthy Again” platform with its new junk food rules for the... Read More

A Promising Plan to Spur Housing Wrecked by Congress

Editorial, Tribune-Review

Among the few things Americans agree on these days is that housing is too expensive. With a shortfall of at least 3.7 million homes, the... Read More

How Early Pennsylvania Shaped the Easter Bunny Tradition

Amaris Manning, WHYY

German immigrants brought the Easter Bunny tradition to Pennsylvania. Winterthur preserves one of the earliest U.S. depictions of the holiday... Read More

House Candidate Criticized for Maternity Leave Cuts

S. Roth, Washington Examiner

Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti (D-PA) faces scrutiny over maternity leave cuts as she tries to flip a must-win House seat. Read More

The Possible Mars-Adams Merger Hits Mars PA

S. Ocneanu, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A flying saucer sits at the corner of Pittsburgh Street and Grand Avenue, welcoming residents and visitors into downtown Mars. Just steps... Read More

O’Connor Brings Millions from Nonprofits for Projects

Hallie Lauer, Post-Gazette

$5 million over the next five years from the University of Pittsburgh for parks and public safety. $10 million split over the next two years... 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

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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