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McCormick: Iran War Costs Won't Take Away from Defense Tech
J. Campos, LNP
Boyle Gives History Lesson, Advice For Fellow Dems
Steve Ulrich, PoliticsPA
The Montco Data Center Fight
Erin McCarthy, Inquirer
Shapiro, Dems Blasted Trump’s ‘Conspiracy Theories'
Michelle Baruchman, Inquirer
Why Did PSU Abruptly Change Its Law School Dean?
C. Thompson, PennLive
Measles Cases Are Surging in Pennsylvania
Axios, D'Onofrio & Reed
Judge Clears Path for PA Broadband Grants to Return
Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA
A Win in Philadelphia for America’s Founders
Jeffrey Anderson, RealClearPolitics
Democrats Fall Short in the Debate Over Crime
Guy Ciarrocchi, 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

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McCormick: Iran War Costs Won't Take Away from Defense Tech

J. Campos, LNP

Six months into the U.S. conflict with Iran, Sen. Dave McCormick said he isn’t concerned about balancing the costs of the war against... Read More

Boyle Gives History Lesson, Advice For Fellow Dems

Steve Ulrich, PoliticsPA

Left to his own devices, Rep. Brendan Boyle would rather talk sports. But the six-term congressman from Philadelphia thought it […] Read More

The Montco Data Center Fight

Erin McCarthy, Inquirer

Developer Brian O'Neill, who wants to build a 2 million-square-foot AI data center outside Conshohocken, has brought a legal challenge to... Read More

Shapiro, Dems Blasted Trump’s ‘Conspiracy Theories'

Michelle Baruchman, Inquirer

New Jersey's disclosure has fueled Trump allies messaging as they push for more federal power over elections. Shapiro and other 2028... Read More

Why Did PSU Abruptly Change Its Law School Dean?

C. Thompson, PennLive

Measles Cases Are Surging in Pennsylvania

Axios, D'Onofrio & Reed

Judge Clears Path for PA Broadband Grants to Return

Charlotte Keith, Spotlight PA

The Trump administration had killed the Digital Equity Act grant, meant to help more people use broadband, as part of push to eliminate DEI... Read More

A Win in Philadelphia for America’s Founders

Jeffrey Anderson, RealClearPolitics

Democrats Fall Short in the Debate Over Crime

Guy Ciarrocchi, Broad & Liberty

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

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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

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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

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

Multimedia

The Greatest WWII Novel
America at 250: A Conversation with Peggy Noonan
Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin

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