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Fetterman Casts Deciding Vote to Advance Trump’s DHS Pick
S. Janesch, Inquirer
PA’s Welfare Fraud Rate Soars 165% in 2025
Ben Mannes, Broad + Liberty
Fetterman: Trump Derangement Syndrome Controls Party
J.D. Prose, PennLive
What a Day at a Gas Station in PA Reveals About the Midterms
J. Allen, NBC News
What to Know About PA’s 2026 Special Elections
Justin Sweitzer, City & State PA
Mom Fights to Protect Students From Predatory AI
Kelsey Kushner, NBC 10
This Montco Fire Marshal is Committed to a Life of Service
Ann Rejrat, Spotlight PA
PA Officials Grappling With ICE's Warehouse Plans
Amanda Fries, Post-Gazette
PA Dems, Beware — Hate Is Affecting Your Judgment
Guy Ciarrocchi, Broad + Liberty
The Constant Evolution of PA’s Right-to-Know Law
Whitney Downard, PA Capital-Star
Their Kids Were Victimized By Deepfakes. They Told Shapiro.
K. Bernard, Inquirer
AOC Visits Carlisle for Affordability Forum
Charles Thompson, PennLive
Pittsburgh Schools Going Remote During NFL Draft
Lindsay Shachnow, Post-Gazette
Cesar Chavez Was a Hero in Public, Very Bad man in Private
David Mills, P-G

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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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.

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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

Fetterman Casts Deciding Vote to Advance Trump’s DHS Pick

S. Janesch, Inquirer

The Pennsylvania senator was the only Democrat to vote in committee for DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin as others — including the GOP... Read More

PA’s Welfare Fraud Rate Soars 165% in 2025

Ben Mannes, Broad + Liberty

Pennsylvania’s welfare fraud rate surged 165 percent in 2025, vaulting the Commonwealth to the fourth‑highest rate in the nation and... Read More

Fetterman: Trump Derangement Syndrome Controls Party

J.D. Prose, PennLive

Sen. John Fetterman has taken yet another jab at his colleagues, saying on a podcast that Trump Derangement Syndrome controls a leaderless... Read More

What a Day at a Gas Station in PA Reveals About the Midterms

J. Allen, NBC News

Plus, an update on the talks to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Read More

What to Know About PA’s 2026 Special Elections

Justin Sweitzer, City & State PA

Several seats in the state House of Representatives have been decided through special elections in 2026. Read More

Mom Fights to Protect Students From Predatory AI

Kelsey Kushner, NBC 10

Roundtable focusing on keeping young people safe from the dangers of AI hosted by Gov. Shapiro months after students targeted by... Read More

This Montco Fire Marshal is Committed to a Life of Service

Ann Rejrat, Spotlight PA

At 16, Katelyn Valesky followed in her parents’ footsteps and joined Huntingdon Valley Fire Company, later becoming a fire marshal. Read More

PA Officials Grappling With ICE's Warehouse Plans

Amanda Fries, Post-Gazette

This story was produced by the Berks County bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, nonpartisan newsroom. Sign up for Good Day, Berks, a... Read More

PA Dems, Beware — Hate Is Affecting Your Judgment

Guy Ciarrocchi, Broad + Liberty

The Constant Evolution of PA’s Right-to-Know Law

Whitney Downard, PA Capital-Star

The 3,970 appeals filed last year are a 23% increase from the previous record in 2024. Read More

Their Kids Were Victimized By Deepfakes. They Told Shapiro.

K. Bernard, Inquirer

Gov. Shapiro hosted a roundtable on AI in schools, where Radnor parents raised concerns about the school district's response to deepfakes.... Read More

AOC Visits Carlisle for Affordability Forum

Charles Thompson, PennLive

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three Congressional colleagues headlined an evening forum on affordability and other domestic policy... Read More

Pittsburgh Schools Going Remote During NFL Draft

Lindsay Shachnow, Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh Public Schools students will learn remotely during the NFL Draft in April as the city prepares to host hundreds of thousands of... Read More

Cesar Chavez Was a Hero in Public, Very Bad man in Private

David Mills, P-G

Cesar Chavez was a hero of my youth, one of the great men my friends and I admired and wanted to emulate. He remained one as I learned more... 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

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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

Sponsored Curation Powered By:

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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