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Garrity Calls for Pause in Data Center Development

C. Thompson, PennLive

DA Krasner Publicly Criticized Parker As He Flirts With Mayor Run

Anna Orso, Inq

PA Needs Teachers, But Too Many Can’t Afford It

Jasmine Thompson, RealClearPA

Hollywood vs. PA: The Battle for the White House

Zach Kennedy, RealClearPA

Lutnick: Nippon Is ‘Absolutely Living Up to the Deal’

Anya Litvak, Post-Gazette

AI Chatbots Still Pose as Doctors Amid PA cCackdown

Jaxon White, Spotlight PA

Fifty Years Later, What We Can Learn from Rocky

Kevin Sunday, RealClearPennsylvania

Dems Place $30M Bet on Reshaping 2028 House Maps

Hans Nichols, Axios

Platner Says He Won’t Be an ‘a–hole’ Like Fetterman in Senate

Tara Suter, The Hill

PA Lawmakers Criticize Platner Ahead of Maine Primary

John Cole, Center Square

Research

Working Class Voters' Role in the 2024 PA Election

Clark, P. F. , Sagepub

PA Voters Bridge Divide in Polling® Event

Deliberative Democracy Lab, Stanford

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

Voters Voice Concerns Before the PA Primary

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

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

Jefferson and the Declaration

Anytime I teach the Declaration of Independence, I find that the most important question to cover is one that is not actually mentioned in the document itself: slavery.

Remembering Washington’s Patriotism

No commemoration is complete without honoring Gen. George Washington as a founder among founders.

In the News

Michael Auslin, Jack Miller Center

The Living Declaration
John C. Pinheiro, Law & Liberty

A Failure of Vision

Multimedia

America at 250: A Conversation with Peggy Noonan

Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin

The Long Road to Juneteenth

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

Garrity Calls for Pause in Data Center Development

C. Thompson, PennLive

DA Krasner Publicly Criticized Parker As He Flirts With Mayor Run

Anna Orso, Inq

Krasner took a letter to Parker's office saying that he needs an additional $5.6 million from the city to bolster shootings investigations,... Read More

PA Needs Teachers, But Too Many Can’t Afford It

Jasmine Thompson, RealClearPA

After more than four years of living independently, I was forced back into my childhood bedroom because the capstone of my teaching degree... Read More

Hollywood vs. PA: The Battle for the White House

Zach Kennedy, RealClearPA

If Democrats are serious about winning back the White House, the next Democratic primary will look like a clash of coasts: Gavin Newsom... Read More

Lutnick: Nippon Is ‘Absolutely Living Up to the Deal’

Anya Litvak, Post-Gazette

Once Nippon Steel’s engineers started digging into the facilities that the Japanese steel firm acquired when it bought U.S. Steel Corp. in... Read More

AI Chatbots Still Pose as Doctors Amid PA cCackdown

Jaxon White, Spotlight PA

Five role-playing bots claimed to be doctors, then provided fake Pennsylvania medical license numbers when prompted. Read More

Fifty Years Later, What We Can Learn from Rocky

Kevin Sunday, RealClearPennsylvania

This summer, it’s expected that hundreds of thousands of visitors will travel from across the globe to Philadelphia to celebrate the... Read More

Dems Place $30M Bet on Reshaping 2028 House Maps

Hans Nichols, Axios

Platner Says He Won’t Be an ‘a–hole’ Like Fetterman in Senate

Tara Suter, The Hill

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner went after Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Sunday during a town hall, calling the... Read More

PA Lawmakers Criticize Platner Ahead of Maine Primary

John Cole, Center Square

(The Center Square) – Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in Pennsylvania in recent days have criticized Maine Democrat Graham Platner... Read More

Research

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

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

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

Voters Voice Concerns Before the PA Primary

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

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

Jefferson and the Declaration

Anytime I teach the Declaration of Independence, I find that the most important question to cover is one that is not actually mentioned in the document itself: slavery.

Remembering Washington’s Patriotism

No commemoration is complete without honoring Gen. George Washington as a founder among founders.