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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Political fixer Roger Stone deserves more in depth scrutiny than the bipartisan January 6th Committee could or did provide in its recent 814-page report, which focused primarily on former President ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rural white voters have long enjoyed outsize power in American politics. They have inflated voting power in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House and the Electoral College. Since the rise of Jacksonian ...

Last March, Suzette Baker, the head librarian at a Llano County, Texas, branch library, was fired for — in the words of her boss — “creating a disturbance, insubordination, violation of policies and ...

The Missouri Senator believes Christian Nationalism is not just the past, but the necessary future of the country. We dismiss this at our own peril. Photo by Zach D. Roberts. Moreso, Hawley believes ...

The new school board member’s blatant display of Three Percenter anti-government militia insignias have also raised concerns in the community. Souderton Areas School District School Board Director ...