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PA GOP Leadership Voice Concerns About Midterm

T. Christopher, PennLive

Two Philly Congressional Candidates Quietly Guide Super PACs

A. Orso, Inquirer

PA is an Energy Giant That Trips Over its Own Red Tape

Elizabeth Stelle, PennLive

Need More Pittsburghers? Pay Them to Move Here

Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Can’t Subsidize its Way to Affordable Housing

P. Chowdury, Post-Gazette

Garrity Trails Shapiro 10-to-1 in Fundraising

Stephen Caruso, Spotlight PA

Shapiro Rakes in Donations From Tech, Real Estate Leaders

J.D. Prose, PennLive

Deluzio Wants to Recruit Fellow Dem Veterans

J. Salant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Jail Notification Shouldn’t be Optional

Editorial, Tribune-Review

'Pennsylvania Grand Canyon' A Natural Wonder

Anthony Fredericks, Travel + Leisure

PA's Constitution is 250 Years Old, And as Relevant as Ever

Brent Landau, PennLive

PA Budgets: Aspirations First, Reality Later

Dave Ball, Observer-Reporter

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

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.

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

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

Daniel Ruggles, Jack Miller Center

Making American Politics Exciting for Students
Blake Scott Ball, Jack Miller Center

How Snoopy Inspired Me to Become a Historian

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

Who’s Winning in Pennsylvania?

John Prideaux, The Economist

Shapiro: Here’s Why Harris Is On Track to Win

Greg Sargent, The New Republic

PA GOP Leadership Voice Concerns About Midterm

T. Christopher, PennLive

The tone at one of the largest state-level conservative conferences in the U.S. was tense as the midterm election season gets underway with... Read More

Two Philly Congressional Candidates Quietly Guide Super PACs

A. Orso, Inquirer

State Sen. Sharif Street and State Rep. Chris Rabb are using a tactic called "redboxing" on their campaign sites, which convey messaging... Read More

PA is an Energy Giant That Trips Over its Own Red Tape

Elizabeth Stelle, PennLive

Ultimately, bad state policies have discouraged investment in reliable, affordable energy in Pennsylvania while subsidizing alternatives that... Read More

Need More Pittsburghers? Pay Them to Move Here

Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

This editorial is part of an ongoing series entitled Big Ideas for a Better Pittsburgh, in which the Editorial Board collects and proposes... Read More

Pittsburgh Can’t Subsidize its Way to Affordable Housing

P. Chowdury, Post-Gazette

Housing affordability has become the promise of the moment. Every political and social campaign invokes it. Every local, state and federal... Read More

Garrity Trails Shapiro 10-to-1 in Fundraising

Stephen Caruso, Spotlight PA

Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, raised just $1 million to Josh Shapiro’s $10.5 million. Read More

Shapiro Rakes in Donations From Tech, Real Estate Leaders

J.D. Prose, PennLive

Gov. Josh Shapiro raised over $10 million in the first quarter of the year fueled by multiple six-figure contributions and one for $1... Read More

Deluzio Wants to Recruit Fellow Dem Veterans

J. Salant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WASHINGTON — The last time Democrats sought to break up President Donald Trump’s governing trifecta — White House, Senate and House... Read More

Jail Notification Shouldn’t be Optional

Editorial, Tribune-Review

When you fill out a form to do anything, there is certain information you expect to provide. Name. Address. Phone number or email. Those are... Read More

'Pennsylvania Grand Canyon' A Natural Wonder

Anthony Fredericks, Travel + Leisure

Brace yourself for jaw-dropping views without the desert heat. Read More

PA's Constitution is 250 Years Old, And as Relevant as Ever

Brent Landau, PennLive

That first founding document of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, authored by Franklin and others, was radical for its time. It expanded... Read More

PA Budgets: Aspirations First, Reality Later

Dave Ball, Observer-Reporter

Pennsylvania budgets are too often not financial documents at all. They are written as political opening statements, negotiated into... Read More