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Knives Out for Fetterman as Democrats Turn on Him
Charles Creitz, Fox News
Pittsburgh Area Loses Population Amid Low Immigration
J. Cloutier, Post-Gazette
The Farmer Who Helped Turn Chesco into PA’s Richest
Joseph DiStefano, Inquirer
Pro-Crypto Group Wants Rob Bresnahan Re-Elected
John Cole, The Center Square
The Associated Press Gone Fully Orwellian
Thom Nickels, Broad + Liberty
PA Court Upends Life-Without-Parole for 2nd-Degree Murder
Mark Scolforo, AP
PA Senators Mull Inheritance Tax Cut
Ian Karbal, 90.5 WESA
PA House Speaker Anticipates On-Time Budget
Dennis Owens, Abc27
Some PA Lawmakers Call for Suspending Gas Taxes
Tom Fontaine, Tribune-Review
Donald Trump and Republicans Get Brutal Polling News
Brian Linder, PennLive

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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America’s Civic Values Outweigh its Divisions
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
Shapiro: Here’s Why Harris Is On Track to Win
Greg Sargent, The New Republic

Knives Out for Fetterman as Democrats Turn on Him

Charles Creitz, Fox News

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman faces Democratic backlash as Rep. Brendan Boyle calls for his ouster over his support for Mullin and voter... Read More

Pittsburgh Area Loses Population Amid Low Immigration

J. Cloutier, Post-Gazette

Amid a nationwide crackdown on immigration, the number of international migrants moving into the Pittsburgh region plummeted last year,... Read More

The Farmer Who Helped Turn Chesco into PA’s Richest

Joseph DiStefano, Inquirer

Gary Smith has run Chester County's development council for 50 years, from his Downingtown farm. As he retires, he shares lessons learned. Read More

Pro-Crypto Group Wants Rob Bresnahan Re-Elected

John Cole, The Center Square

(The Center Square) – An advocacy group that wants to elect more pro-cryptocurrency candidates to Congress is weighing in on two U.S. House... Read More

The Associated Press Gone Fully Orwellian

Thom Nickels, Broad + Liberty

There was no AP Style book when I was in journalism school, but there was an AP satellite office next to the city’s Greyhound Bus... Read More

PA Court Upends Life-Without-Parole for 2nd-Degree Murder

Mark Scolforo, AP

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court says the state cannot automatically give life without parole for felony murder without weighing each... Read More

PA Senators Mull Inheritance Tax Cut

Ian Karbal, 90.5 WESA

The commonwealth is one of five states that has an inheritance tax. Read More

PA House Speaker Anticipates On-Time Budget

Dennis Owens, Abc27

(WHTM) – Pennsylvania House Speaker Joanna McClinton (D-Philadelphia) says the move to pass a state budget out of committee this week... Read More

Some PA Lawmakers Call for Suspending Gas Taxes

Tom Fontaine, Tribune-Review

With average gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon, and diesel prices nearly $2 a gallon higher, some Pennsylvania lawmakers are exploring... Read More

Donald Trump and Republicans Get Brutal Polling News

Brian Linder, PennLive

The news was delivered by CNN data guru Harry Enten, who broke down the results of polls from Marist and Quinnipiac University that looked at... 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

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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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