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What Voters Think About Gov’s (Popularity) Race and Trump
J.D. Prose, PennLive
U.S. Steel Workers Remain Divided Over Nippon
Engel & Babetski, Trib-Review
Doctors, Lawmakers Play Catch-Up With Kratom
Hanna Webster, Post-Gazette
ICE Plan for Detention Center Faces Resistance in Schuylkill
F. Akinnibi, Bloomberg
McCormick Hopeful Shapiro Will Opt PA Into School Choice
John Cole, TCS
Franklin & Marshall College Poll Release: June 2026
B. Yost, F&M Poll
Skill Games Are Illegal, PA Court Says. Now What?
Caruso & White, Spotlight PA
How Has U.S. Steel Changed Since Nippon Takeover?
Anya Litvak, Post-Gazette
PA House Dems Voted to Rip Scholarships Away from Kids
Andrew Lewis, RCPA
Legislature Fast-Tracks Bills to Address Data Centers
E. Young, PennLive
Platner, Fetterman and the Myth of the Working-Class Politico
J. Zimmerman, Inq
Money, Money, Money
G. Ciarrocchi, Broad & Liberty
Sen. Says State Losing Out Because of Shapiro-backed Price Cap
F. Turner, TCS
What to Know About PA’s Rainy Day Fund
Mark Walters, USA Today
Dean Says She Was Blocked from Oversight Visit to ICE Facility
Sam Janesch, Inq

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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Teaching the Declaration Starts at the Archives
Every generation inherits the Declaration of Independence and its promises.
Jefferson and the Declaration
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America at 250: A Conversation with Peggy Noonan
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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

What Voters Think About Gov’s (Popularity) Race and Trump

J.D. Prose, PennLive

U.S. Steel Workers Remain Divided Over Nippon

Engel & Babetski, Trib-Review

On the one-year anniversary Thursday of a $15 billion deal that put Japan’s Nippon Steel in charge of iconic American manufacturer U.S.... Read More

Doctors, Lawmakers Play Catch-Up With Kratom

Hanna Webster, Post-Gazette

Jesse Golden still remembers the feeling of withdrawing from kratom, with persistent vomiting and cold sweats leaving him sleeping by the... Read More

ICE Plan for Detention Center Faces Resistance in Schuylkill

F. Akinnibi, Bloomberg

McCormick Hopeful Shapiro Will Opt PA Into School Choice

John Cole, TCS

(The Center Square) – As U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick continues to advocate for a federal school choice program, he expressed optimism that... Read More

Franklin & Marshall College Poll Release: June 2026

B. Yost, F&M Poll

The poll finds that voters are deeply concerned about the economy and their personal finances, and increasingly dissatisfied with President... Read More

Skill Games Are Illegal, PA Court Says. Now What?

Caruso & White, Spotlight PA

Skill game taxation rates and ensuring public safety are among the policy questions PA lawmakers need to hash out. Read More

How Has U.S. Steel Changed Since Nippon Takeover?

Anya Litvak, Post-Gazette

On July 20, Bernie Hall will be sitting across the table from Nippon Steel — whose takeover of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel one year ago he... Read More

PA House Dems Voted to Rip Scholarships Away from Kids

Andrew Lewis, RCPA

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania House Democrats on the Education Committee quietly did something extraordinary — and not in a good way. With... Read More

Legislature Fast-Tracks Bills to Address Data Centers

E. Young, PennLive

Platner, Fetterman and the Myth of the Working-Class Politico

J. Zimmerman, Inq

A recent feud between Graham Platner and John Fetterman underscores the political differences between the two men. But Jonathan Zimmerman... Read More

Money, Money, Money

G. Ciarrocchi, Broad & Liberty

Sen. Says State Losing Out Because of Shapiro-backed Price Cap

F. Turner, TCS

(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward thinks the state is getting the short end of the energy stick... Read More

What to Know About PA’s Rainy Day Fund

Mark Walters, USA Today

Dean Says She Was Blocked from Oversight Visit to ICE Facility

Sam Janesch, Inq

The Montgomery County Democrat was blocked from talking with detainees at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Crawford County. 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

More From Real Clear

RNC Chair Talks Midterms During Philly Visit
Be Skeptical of Any Deal With Iran, Sen. McCormick Says
Voters Voice Concerns Before the PA Primary
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he wants to see more funding for public transportation

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

Teaching the Declaration Starts at the Archives
Every generation inherits the Declaration of Independence and its promises.
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.

In the News

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

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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