RealClearPennsylvania - Opinion, News, Analysis, and Videos

Tuesday, August 18

Set this view as default? Yes No

Justice Dept.: South Philly Hotel Part of $100M Ponzi Scheme

A. Gutman, Inquirer

Slow Roll Onto Three Mile Island Marks Return of Nuclear

C. Thompson, Pennlive

Tradwife Trend Builds Healthy Habits. The Amish Already Knew That.

Staff, NYP

SD-26: Gail Scott Steps In As GOP Candidate

Steve Ulrich, PoliticsPA

500+ Teachers Left Philly District Schools Last Year

Mike D'Onofrio, Axios

PA Man Admitted Killing Neighbor. Cops Left and He Killed Another.

J. Wise, LHV

Judge: Allegheny County Must Reassess Property by 2032

Staff, Public Source

How Garrity Calculates Data Center Donations to Shapiro

Matthew Rink, GoErie

Priest Accused of Embezzling $740K from PA Parishes, Mother

P. Varine, TribLive

Cranberry Special Election Could Set Midterm Tone

Ryan Deto, Axios

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

Videos

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.

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

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.

In the News

Liberty & Order

Caesar, Cato, or Cincinnatus?
Michael Auslin, Jack Miller Center

The Living Declaration

Multimedia

The Greatest WWII Novel

America at 250: A Conversation with Peggy Noonan

Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin

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

Justice Dept.: South Philly Hotel Part of $100M Ponzi Scheme

A. Gutman, Inquirer

The lawsuit accuses New Jersey-based father-son duo, Pankaj Sheth and Rajan Sheth, among other family members, of using chronically... Read More

Slow Roll Onto Three Mile Island Marks Return of Nuclear

C. Thompson, Pennlive

The promised restart of the nuclear power plant formerly known as Three Mile Island hit a physical milestone Monday with the delivery of the... Read More

Tradwife Trend Builds Healthy Habits. The Amish Already Knew That.

Staff, NYP

It turns out keeping chickens and growing vegetables don’t just drive social-media clicks: They’re also habits associated with... Read More

SD-26: Gail Scott Steps In As GOP Candidate

Steve Ulrich, PoliticsPA

There’s a new candidate in the 26th Senatorial District race in Delaware County. Following the withdrawal of Alfe Goodwin, the Delaware... Read More

500+ Teachers Left Philly District Schools Last Year

Mike D'Onofrio, Axios

Teachers and staff return to classrooms this week ahead of the first day of school next Monday, following a year in which 506 full-time... Read More

PA Man Admitted Killing Neighbor. Cops Left and He Killed Another.

J. Wise, LHV

Three days before Thanksgiving in 2023, fire tore through Dennis Seelenbrandt’s trailer in rural upstate Pennsylvania. The three-alarm... Read More

Judge: Allegheny County Must Reassess Property by 2032

Staff, Public Source

A judge’s order gives the county until July to pick a contractor to reevaluate the taxable values of hundreds of thousands of properties,... Read More

How Garrity Calculates Data Center Donations to Shapiro

Matthew Rink, GoErie

Republican gubernatorial nominee and state Treasurer Stacy Garrity in recent weeks has claimed that the Democratic incumbent, Gov. Josh... Read More

Priest Accused of Embezzling $740K from PA Parishes, Mother

P. Varine, TribLive

A Ukrainian Catholic priest is charged with stealing more than $740,000 in church funds and from multiple victims — including his... Read More

Cranberry Special Election Could Set Midterm Tone

Ryan Deto, Axios

Democrats have been overperforming in special elections under Trump 2.0, and local results to fill a vacancy in Pennsylvania’s state... Read More