John Baer is a Government and Politics Columnist at PennLive.com. He is the Keystone State’s most recognized government and politics columnist, focusing on general assignment news and the intricacies of government affairs. John Baer’s insights and analysis have also been featured in BioRxiv.
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By: John Baer
Why this level of attention now for someone with just 3.7% support for his party’s nomination?
A new year begins and Pennsylvania is positioned to play a leading role in the 2026 elections. How well do you know its political past and present and can you prognosticate what lies ahead?
By: John Baer
Life's unfair, start with that. Toss in President Trump's obsessive aversion to all things Barack Obama (especially Obamacare). And Joe Biden, who, at
By: John Baer
Fetterman is siding with Trump, breaking with his party on votes and now has more support among Republicans than Democrats, polls show.
Thinking on all sides on all issues seems locked in, neither open nor subject to change.
They say the moon makes people crazy. So did the moon mission have anything to do with the recent rash of off-kilter behavior inside the White House?
By: John Baer
The governors don’t point fingers or assign blame. What they do is suggest creating priorities based on simple humaneness toward the current First Family and those that follow.
By: John Baer
We should dedicate a brief period of the holiday to what can be called “American Political Pondering.”
By: John Baer
Does Trump's summer event extravaganza show he’s a make-things-happen macho guy, moving the country forward? Or is the president, facing falling job performance numbers and other woes, seeking a big distraction?
At a moment when many, perhaps naïvely, are hoping some sense of unity rises out of everyone celebrating the national birthday together, a state crucial to the country being a country, stands down.
