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McCormick Calls for National Voter ID Ahead of Midterms
Alton Northup, Abc27
How Democrats Have Mastered Modern Elections
Guy Ciarrocchi, RealClearPA
ICE Agents Wear Masks Due to Doxing, Fetterman Says
Maggie Prosser, Inquirer
ICE a Thorny Issue for PA’s Top Leaders
Sam Janesch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Gov. Shapiro’s Cabinet Says ICE Tactics ‘Clear Abuse of Power’
M. Singel, PennLive
Gov. Shapiro Plans ‘Fiscally Responsible’ 2026 Budget
Ford Turner, Post-Gazette
New Year, New Budget
Jim Struzzi, Broad + Liberty
Eli Lilly Plans $3.5 Billion Plant in PA
Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC
Rivetti Nominated as U.S. Attorney for W. PA
Patrick Cloonan, Indiana Gazette Online
Taxing Natural Gas Won’t Solve PA's Budget Crisis
S. Wissman, PennLive
PA’s Independents Surge, Despite Being Locked Put of Primaries
J. White, WITF
Garrity Visits Philadelphia for AFP Event
Linda Stein, Broad + Liberty

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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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

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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.
Liberal Education as Civic Education
At the heart of the Western intellectual tradition is the claim that the liberal arts aim to make a man free.

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Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin
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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

McCormick Calls for National Voter ID Ahead of Midterms

Alton Northup, Abc27

“This is the one thing that needs to happen prior to the midterm election,” McCormick said last week while appearing on... Read More

How Democrats Have Mastered Modern Elections

Guy Ciarrocchi, RealClearPA

Technology and tactics have changed dramatically since Lincoln was training Whig Party leaders, though his strategy for winning elections... Read More

ICE Agents Wear Masks Due to Doxing, Fetterman Says

Maggie Prosser, Inquirer

In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) said doxing is a 'serious concern' for federal immigration agents. Read More

ICE a Thorny Issue for PA’s Top Leaders

Sam Janesch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WASHINGTON — Three hundred miles apart on another freezing morning last week, a retired elementary school teacher in Philadelphia and a... Read More

Gov. Shapiro’s Cabinet Says ICE Tactics ‘Clear Abuse of Power’

M. Singel, PennLive

​It is unthinkable that the President of the United States would invade his own cities with masked, heavily armed troops and place the... Read More

Gov. Shapiro Plans ‘Fiscally Responsible’ 2026 Budget

Ford Turner, Post-Gazette

HARRISBURG — Less than three months after wrapping up a bruising 135-day state budget standoff and facing a welter of ongoing financial... Read More

New Year, New Budget

Jim Struzzi, Broad + Liberty

I propose that our Commonwealth and its leaders should begin the budget season in 2026 with a shared New Year’s Resolution for the... Read More

Eli Lilly Plans $3.5 Billion Plant in PA

Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC

The plant will help make Lilly's experimental drug called retatrutide, which has shown the highest weight loss seen to date in a late-stage... Read More

Rivetti Nominated as U.S. Attorney for W. PA

Patrick Cloonan, Indiana Gazette Online

Troy Rivetti is nominated to serve as U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania. Read More

Taxing Natural Gas Won’t Solve PA's Budget Crisis

S. Wissman, PennLive

At a time when affordability is a top concern for Pennsylvanians, imposing punitive energy taxes is completely out of touch. Read More

PA’s Independents Surge, Despite Being Locked Put of Primaries

J. White, WITF

Like many of Pennsylvania’s independent voters, Cumberland County resident Kathryn Malinowski teeters between political parties so she can... Read More

Garrity Visits Philadelphia for AFP Event

Linda Stein, Broad + Liberty

Stacy Garrity is the underdog in the 2026 race for Pennsylvania governor against well-funded incumbent Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro. But... 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

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.
Liberal Education as Civic Education
At the heart of the Western intellectual tradition is the claim that the liberal arts aim to make a man free.

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

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

Why The Candidates Are Investing Time Into Pennsylvania

Sarah McCammon, NPR

NPR tracked where the candidates are investing the most travel time and money. Unsurprisingly, the most competitive states are receiving the... Read More

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