The Woman Republicans Hope Can Beat Josh Shapiro

State Treasurer Stacy Garrity — who received the most votes of any PA candidate ever in her reelection bid last year — may already be the Commonwealth’s most successful female politician of all time. But is that enough?

By Courtney DuChene

SEPTA, The Art of The Ordeal

Compromise may finally be in the air. Some thoughts (including a Mellencamp cameo?) on the politics behind our budgetary fiasco — and why a win/win has been so elusive

By Larry Platt

What the SEPTA Saga has Revealed about Parker and Shapiro

The Mayor has been silent. The Governor is rallying the already converted. Whatever happened to preventing a crisis before it starts?

By Larry Platt

Shapiro’s Choice

Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill contains a free money, opt-in school choice program for governors. Will ours redefine the politics of education for Democrats by taking advantage of it?

By Larry Platt
Guest Commentary

Philadelphia, America’s Democracy Laboratory — Again

The PA Speaker of the House of Representatives on why Hillary Clinton, Josh Shapiro and PA lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle just started a voting access revolution, in Philly

By Joanna McClinton

Josh Shapiro and Moral Clarity

Wouldn’t the Governor’s principled call for it in the New York Times and elsewhere best be served by retiring the phrase “antisemitism?"

By Larry Platt
The New Urban Order

The Case for a Politics of Repair

We need more of what Governor Josh Shapiro gave us with the quick fix of I-95

By Diana Lind

VP Remorse?

Tim Walz’s subpar debate performance should have Democratic insiders looking at Harrisburg and wondering what could have been had Gov. Shapiro been on that stage

By Larry Platt

“Baruch Shapiro” Was Funny … ’Til It Wasn’t

Progressives targeted Josh Shapiro in the VP sweepstakes. What does that mean for PA … and the country?

By Larry Platt

Is Josh Shapiro Brat Enough for Kamala Harris?

Trump’s true legacy has been to retire conventional wisdom and turn politics into pop culture spectacle. Does our Governor help Harris answer in kind?

By Larry Platt