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Pittsburgh, America’s Monotown
Chris Briem, Post-Gazette
What Is the Story of a City?
Brandon McGinley, Post-Gazette
PA Democrats Rebuke 'Traitor' Fetterman
Rena Rowe, Washington Examiner
Why Elected Independents Are Rare in Pennsylvania
Kate Huangpu, Spotlight PA
PA Suing Character AI, Claiming Chatbot Posed as Med Professional
Staff, CBS
Shapiro Says He Didn’t Tell a Union to Support Garrity
Gillian McGoldrick, Inquirer
Save the Students
Guy Ciarrocchi, Broad & Liberty
Infighting Erupts as Dems Intervene in Contested Primaries
A. Solender, Axios
Independent Coffee Shops a Driver in SWPA
Ember Duke, Tribune-Review
The Last Days of Butter Ridge
Saslow & Schaff, NYT
PA Moves to Shift Grid Costs to Data Centers
Adam Aton, Politico
Jefferson, Penn Medicine Eye Billions in Expansion Projects
John George, PBJ

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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USA Energy Affordability Map

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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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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

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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
Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?
John Prideaux, The Economist
Shapiro: Here’s Why Harris Is On Track to Win
Greg Sargent, The New Republic

Pittsburgh, America’s Monotown

Chris Briem, Post-Gazette

For more than six decades, Soviet planners had dictated the economic specializations of entire cities and guaranteed demand for all that they... Read More

What Is the Story of a City?

Brandon McGinley, Post-Gazette

When I talk to people about my job at the Post-Gazette — previously as editorial page editor, now as columnist and editor for opinion &... Read More

PA Democrats Rebuke 'Traitor' Fetterman

Rena Rowe, Washington Examiner

Why Elected Independents Are Rare in Pennsylvania

Kate Huangpu, Spotlight PA

While the number of registered independents is growing in PA, there aren’t many elected officials without a political party. Read More

PA Suing Character AI, Claiming Chatbot Posed as Med Professional

Staff, CBS

A Character AI chatbot falsely claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist in Pennsylvania and provided an invalid license number, the state said. Read More

Shapiro Says He Didn’t Tell a Union to Support Garrity

Gillian McGoldrick, Inquirer

In the 2024 election, Shapiro’s top labor allies backed GOP nominee Stacy Garrity over Democrat Erin McClelland for state treasurer.... Read More

Save the Students

Guy Ciarrocchi, Broad & Liberty

Infighting Erupts as Dems Intervene in Contested Primaries

A. Solender, Axios

Independent Coffee Shops a Driver in SWPA

Ember Duke, Tribune-Review

Seeking a sense of community is what got April Zeolla, owner and operator of Novo Café in Arnold, into the coffee business. And a community... Read More

The Last Days of Butter Ridge

Saslow & Schaff, NYT

PA Moves to Shift Grid Costs to Data Centers

Adam Aton, Politico

Jefferson, Penn Medicine Eye Billions in Expansion Projects

John George, PBJ

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

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
Trump Heads to PA to Tout Affordability Push

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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