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Fetterman Votes Against Restricting Trump on Iran
Sam Janesch, Inquirer
Where Every Day is Like an Episode of ‘The Pitt’
Samuel Long, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
City & State’s 2026-27 PA State Budget Tracker
Justin Sweitzer, City & State PA
Lower Merion Parents Revolt Against School Chromebooks
Maddie Hanna, Inquirer
County Bans Poll Workers from Using Prediction Markets
C. Walker, Post-Gazette
Parker Endorses Sharif Street in Philly Congressional Race
Mike D'Onofrio, Axios
Q&A With Kathryn Canavan, Author of ‘Killer In The House'
P. Davis, Broad + Liberty
NATO Has Ended. Acknowledge It and Start Fresh
Guy Ciarrocchi, B+L
More PA Police Agencies Signing up To Help ICE
Jeff Gammage, Inquirer
Shapiro Wants to Scrap Three 'Niche' Tax Credits
Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA

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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Greg Sargent, The New Republic

Fetterman Votes Against Restricting Trump on Iran

Sam Janesch, Inquirer

Democrats forced the war powers vote for the fourth time after the president's comments last week threatening Iran's "whole civilization."... Read More

Where Every Day is Like an Episode of ‘The Pitt’

Samuel Long, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Walking through the halls of Allegheny General Hospital’s emergency department, Brent Rau waved at coworkers, nodded to his residents and... Read More

City & State’s 2026-27 PA State Budget Tracker

Justin Sweitzer, City & State PA

Legislative leaders passed a budget bill in April, though negotiations on a final product are ongoing. Read More

Lower Merion Parents Revolt Against School Chromebooks

Maddie Hanna, Inquirer

About 200 parents signed a petition to opt out of receiving school-issued Chromebooks. They say kids are spending time using low-quality... Read More

County Bans Poll Workers from Using Prediction Markets

C. Walker, Post-Gazette

This article is made possible through Spotlight PA’s collaboration with Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election... Read More

Parker Endorses Sharif Street in Philly Congressional Race

Mike D'Onofrio, Axios

The May 19 Democratic primary for the 3rd Congressional District — the premier race in Philly this year — is tight, and Parker's... Read More

Q&A With Kathryn Canavan, Author of ‘Killer In The House'

P. Davis, Broad + Liberty

I first interviewed journalist and author Kathryn Canavan in 2021 when my Crime Beat column appeared in Philadelphia Weekly.  Read More

NATO Has Ended. Acknowledge It and Start Fresh

Guy Ciarrocchi, B+L

More PA Police Agencies Signing up To Help ICE

Jeff Gammage, Inquirer

Nationally, these types of alliances have helped produce 19,918 arrests since Trump was inaugurated in January 2025. Read More

Shapiro Wants to Scrap Three 'Niche' Tax Credits

Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA

Shapiro proposes cutting three PA tax credits he calls ineffective, but supporters argue the programs need expansion, not elimination. 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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