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Wednesday, May 6

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Talk of Fetterman Switching Parties Colors 2028 Race

S. Roth, Washington Examiner

Will John Fetterman Go Full Benedict Arnold?

Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect

Garrity Would Not Sign Bill Legalizing Marijuana

Alfred Lubrano, Inquirer

PA-07: Brooks Explains His ‘Why’ From Snow Plow

Steve Ulrich, Politics PA

Rep. Rabb Takes Controversial Vote Against Sex Trafficking Bill

A. Orso, Inquirer

PA Sues AI Company, Saying its Chatbots Claim to Be Doctors

Marc Levy, AP News

More Traffic Allows PA Turnpike to Raise Capital Spending

Ed Blazina, Post-Gazette

PA Does Just Fine Without a Mail-In Ballot Grace Period

Paul Calem, Broad + Liberty

Should Terminally Ill Patients in PA Get Assisted Suicide?

M. Long, LancasterOnline

Tariffs’ Impact on Pennsylvania Ag

Carol Hardbarger, Lancaster Farming

How Garrity is Trying to Steer the Governor Race

Mark Walters, Pocono Record

PA-7 Dem Rivals Take Aim at Brooks

Hilary Danailova, City & State PA

Sen. McCormick visits Bellwether District

Linda Stein, Broad + Liberty

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

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.

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

Jon K. Lauck, Middle West Review

The Frustrations of the Overlooked in 'Flyover Country'
Heath Anderson, The Dispatch

MLK: A Great American Statesman

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

Talk of Fetterman Switching Parties Colors 2028 Race

S. Roth, Washington Examiner

Speculation over Sen. John Fetterman leaving the Democratic Party is drawing GOP interest and fueling questions about Pennsylvania’s 2028... Read More

Will John Fetterman Go Full Benedict Arnold?

Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect

Any re-election campaign in 2028 is doomed. Will he spend the remainder of his term completing the betrayal of his own constituents? Read More

Garrity Would Not Sign Bill Legalizing Marijuana

Alfred Lubrano, Inquirer

Garrity said any bill supporting recreational marijuana "is never going to pass" in the state Senate. Read More

PA-07: Brooks Explains His ‘Why’ From Snow Plow

Steve Ulrich, Politics PA

It’s one of the more unusual campaign videos that we’ve seen in the Commonwealth since Tom Wolf spent his time driving around the... Read More

Rep. Rabb Takes Controversial Vote Against Sex Trafficking Bill

A. Orso, Inquirer

The votes came two weeks before the May 19 primary election. Rabb has in the past taken controversial votes to oppose legislation he believes... Read More

PA Sues AI Company, Saying its Chatbots Claim to Be Doctors

Marc Levy, AP News

Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and deceive the... Read More

More Traffic Allows PA Turnpike to Raise Capital Spending

Ed Blazina, Post-Gazette

The high cost of fuel and more than 15 years of toll increases seem to be working against the Pennsylvania Turnpike, but the toll road... Read More

PA Does Just Fine Without a Mail-In Ballot Grace Period

Paul Calem, Broad + Liberty

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments in the case Watson v. Republican National Committee, which concerns whether federal law... Read More

Should Terminally Ill Patients in PA Get Assisted Suicide?

M. Long, LancasterOnline

Thirteen states, including New Jersey, New York and Delaware, offer medical aid in dying. In those states, terminally ill patients with less... Read More

Tariffs’ Impact on Pennsylvania Ag

Carol Hardbarger, Lancaster Farming

Examining the impacts of the Trump administration's tariffs on agriculture products on Pennsylvania farmers. Read More

How Garrity is Trying to Steer the Governor Race

Mark Walters, Pocono Record

Stacy Garrity’s quest to become Pennsylvania’s 49th governor is under way, and the Republican state treasurer in her second term... Read More

PA-7 Dem Rivals Take Aim at Brooks

Hilary Danailova, City & State PA

After Democratic PA-7 candidate Bob Brooks told a Lehigh University audience that Gov. Josh Shapiro asked him to endorse Republican Stacy... Read More

Sen. McCormick visits Bellwether District

Linda Stein, Broad + Liberty

What was once acres and acres of oil refineries has been transformed into a new industrial campus in South Philadelphia. Read More