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Trump Hits Shapiro, Promotes Defense Investments in PA
Sam Janesch, Inquirer
Fetterman Would Leave Dem Party If It Turns Its Back on Israel
A. Bolton, The Hill
Report on Allegheny Co. Pension System Warns of Insolvency
M. Trotter, Trib-Rev
Why AG Is Defending PA’s Medicaid Abortion Ban
Kate Huangpu, Spotlight PA
House Judiciary Cmte Issues Subpoena to Krasner
Jeff Gammage, Inquirer
PA Faces a Choice to Limit Gambling Addiction
Oliver Morrison, Public Source
PA Still Faces an Underlying $5B Deficit
Zach Hoopes, PennLive
Trump Hailed at Defense Summit for Security Spending
C. Thompson, PennLive
Trump Drifts Into Campaign Topics at Defense Tech Gathering
Staff, AP

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

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Trump Hits Shapiro, Promotes Defense Investments in PA

Sam Janesch, Inquirer

Donald Trump called Josh Shapiro "overrated" as he visited a key Pennsylvania swing district and promoted defense spending in the state. Read More

Fetterman Would Leave Dem Party If It Turns Its Back on Israel

A. Bolton, The Hill

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Report on Allegheny Co. Pension System Warns of Insolvency

M. Trotter, Trib-Rev

Allegheny County officials have warned for years that the county’s pension system was sinking deeper into debt. Now, a new report says... Read More

Why AG Is Defending PA’s Medicaid Abortion Ban

Kate Huangpu, Spotlight PA

The PA Supreme Court has agreed to hear Dave Sunday’s appeal of a ruling that found the ban is unconstitutional. Read More

House Judiciary Cmte Issues Subpoena to Krasner

Jeff Gammage, Inquirer

The Republican-led committee said Krasner, a Democrat, failed to provide materials that were requested in May. Read More

PA Faces a Choice to Limit Gambling Addiction

Oliver Morrison, Public Source

Pennsylvania leads the U.S. in online gambling. A commission lays out options to address gambling addiction in the Commonwealth. Read More

PA Still Faces an Underlying $5B Deficit

Zach Hoopes, PennLive

Trump Hailed at Defense Summit for Security Spending

C. Thompson, PennLive

Trump Drifts Into Campaign Topics at Defense Tech Gathering

Staff, AP

President Donald Trump has addressed a defense summit at the U.S. Army War College, but he focused more on political themes than battlefield... 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

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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

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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.

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

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Essential Reading

The Ladies, and How We Remember Them
Abigail Adams admonished her husband to “remember the ladies.” 
Teaching the Declaration Starts at the Archives
Every generation inherits the Declaration of Independence and its promises.

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Multimedia

The Greatest WWII Novel
America at 250: A Conversation with Peggy Noonan
Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin

Podcasts

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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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