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History is a conversation, unending and always open to new discussion and insights. What Hillsdale is pushing is a completely other view of what history even is, a view that looks remarkably like ...

Pennridge School District engaged in a massive two-year cover-up of a secret book-banning campaign initiated by two sitting Republican school board directors hellbent on unilaterally purging books ...

We are school board members, parents, educators, and community members from all around Pennsylvania. We are from well-resourced and underfunded school districts; from rural, suburban, and urban ones.

“Republicans tied equality before the law to the principles of the Founders. They emphasized the danger of giving up democracy to an elite that based its power on a white supremacist reading of U.S.

Banning books is hard. Well, no, that’s not entirely accurate. Banning books using the proper legal channels is hard. There is a pesky speed bump called the First Amendment of the Constitution. It ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection had joined a pipeline company’s efforts to prevent challenges of its permits by the state’s Environmental Hearing Board. Thankfully they were ...

From JD Vance to Project 2025, how Peter Thiel and a guy who wants the U.S. to be a monarchy (really!) are driving Trump’s MAGA agenda. This week Melissa Ryan focus on the men ultimately responsible ...

The New Apostolic Reformation, a dominionist movement, wants to claim the “Seven Mountains” of society for God. It’s Abby’s job to conquer Pennsylvania’s government mountain. Abby Abildness chats with ...

Experts say the causes are still unclear, but the change is consistent with a warming world. The effects on the ground could be devastating. Trees and electrical wiring brought down by a tornado in ...

Bible Evangelical Methodist Church in Bristol specializes in lending a helping hand to neighbors in need, in a county with 7.2 percent of residents and 8.7 percent of children hungry or food insecure.

From July 2021 to June 2023, PEN America recorded 5,894 instances of book bans across 41 states and 247 public school districts. And Pennsylvania was one of the worst states, coming in behind just ...