That embroidered skirt you love? It started with the pioneers of the art-as-fashion movement | Elizabeth Wellington
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That embroidered skirt you love? It started with the pioneers of the art-as-fashion movement | Elizabeth Wellington

by Elizabeth Wellington
Unlike many hoity-toity museum shows that feature clothes, Off the Wall isn’t about the couture gowns of heiresses, but rather pieces you might own because someone close to you might have made something similar for you.
Carrie Lam and Xi Jinping could defuse Hong Kong’s rising tension by listening to protesters | Trudy Rubin
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To save Hong Kong, leaders should listen to the demands of young protesters | Trudy Rubin

by Trudy Rubin
Trudy Rubin reports from the streets of Hong Kong.
Carrie Lam and Xi Jinping could defuse Hong Kong’s rising tension by listening to protesters | Trudy Rubin
Opinion

To save Hong Kong, leaders should listen to the demands of young protesters | Trudy Rubin

Trudy Rubin reports from the streets of Hong Kong.
I heard school shooting survivors’ stories. Then it happened again in California. | Helen Ubiñas
Opinion

In a Philly bookstore, people heard stories of school shooting survivors. Less than 24 hours later, there were more. | Helen Ubiñas

by Helen Ubiñas
“Do you know what it’s like to be shot at?” wrote one survivor.
I heard school shooting survivors’ stories. Then it happened again in California. | Helen Ubiñas
Opinion

In a Philly bookstore, people heard stories of school shooting survivors. Less than 24 hours later, there were more. | Helen Ubiñas

“Do you know what it’s like to be shot at?” wrote one survivor.
His life was once dominated by bullets. Now, he’s helping young people heal in a city drowning in violence | Mike Newall
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His life was once dominated by bullets. Now, he’s helping young people heal in a city drowning in violence | Mike Newall

by Mike Newall
We won’t be able to make a dent in this epidemic of trauma and violence until we start listening to the people who have lived through it.
His life was once dominated by bullets. Now, he’s helping young people heal in a city drowning in violence | Mike Newall
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His life was once dominated by bullets. Now, he’s helping young people heal in a city drowning in violence | Mike Newall

We won’t be able to make a dent in this epidemic of trauma and violence until we start listening to the people who have lived through it.
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The government isn’t going to save us, so we have to take control of our streets and save ourselves | Jenice Armstrong
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The government isn’t going to save us, so we have to take control of our streets and save ourselves | Jenice Armstrong

by Jenice Armstrong
Get as fired up about the gun violence that plays out in our communities as you do in cases involving police injustice, such as when two black men were arrested at a Center City Starbucks last year.
Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, which has given $8.6 million locally this year, is ‘pausing’ grants

Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, which has given $8.6 million locally this year, is ‘pausing’ grants

by Joseph N. DiStefano
Wells Fargo Regional Foundation stalls new grants as it adopts a new focus.
How this trio built Philly’s largest private-equity outfit: with cash from Pa., bets on firms like Five Below
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How this trio built Philly’s largest private-equity outfit: with cash from Pa., bets on firms like Five Below

by Joseph N. DiStefano
This firm has grown, not by cutting bigger deals, but by hiring additional investment pros so it can buy into more companies with sales below $100 million and have big prospects for improvement.
Trump’s worst moral crimes aren’t the ones he’s getting impeached for | Will Bunch
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Trump’s worst moral crimes aren’t the ones he’s getting impeached for | Will Bunch

by Will Bunch
Stephen Miller's white nationalism, record number of child jailings are a reminder: Trump's moral stain on America runs much deeper than Ukraine.
John Legend is exactly the kind of man we say we want, so why are we hating on this Sexiest Man Alive? | Elizabeth Wellington
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John Legend is exactly the kind of man we say we want, so why are we hating on this Sexiest Man Alive? | Elizabeth Wellington

by Elizabeth Wellington
Within minutes after People magazine editors announced Tuesday that Legend was their pick for its annual honor, the hate seeped out of my social media feed like hateration sludge. You've got to be kidding me.
Disney+ ruins classics with new trigger warnings | Christine Flowers
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Disney+ ruins classics with new trigger warnings | Christine Flowers

by Christine M. Flowers
Isn’t it at all possible that the little girl who sees the handsome prince on bended knee with the crystal slipper will both sigh with delight, and one day grow up to be president?
Philadelphia’s legacy art museums work to attract a woke generation with frank talk and better amenities | Inga Saffron
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Philadelphia’s legacy art museums work to attract a woke generation with frank talk and better amenities | Inga Saffron

by Inga Saffron
There’s a reason that the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Penn Museum are opening new, more accessible entrances.
Talk of a ‘new Cold War’ between U.S. and China is misleading | Trudy Rubin
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Talk of a ‘new Cold War’ between U.S. and China is misleading | Trudy Rubin

by Trudy Rubin
The difference between Old Cold War days and now becomes immediately clear on a two-week trip to China.
Clarity is key in Trump impeachment proceedings. That’s why the ellipsis must die. | The Angry Grammarian
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Clarity is key in Trump impeachment proceedings. That’s why the ellipsis must die. | The Angry Grammarian

by Angry Grammarian
The testimony transcripts released last week reveal that the Ukraine call’s ellipses created only confusion—and perhaps deliberate deception.
Looky here, millennials and boomers, this Gen Xer is here to tell you why you need us | Elizabeth Wellington
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Looky here, millennials and boomers, this Gen Xer is here to tell you why you need us | Elizabeth Wellington

by Elizabeth Wellington
This "OK Boomer" rumble completely ignores Gen X. But even if we wanted to jump in the mud with y’all, we can’t. Why? Because we're working to hard to take care of the people we're generationally sandwiched in between.
Do Trump impeachment hearings need boffo ratings, ‘must-see TV’ buzz to succeed? | Will Bunch
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Does Trump impeachment hearing need to be ‘must see TV’ to succeed? | Will Bunch

by Will Bunch
Will Democrats fail in their impeachment quest if TV viewers aren’t riveted like Watergate? Is justice possible in a reality-show world?
OK Bloomberg: What panicked billionaires don’t get about a nation that made them so rich | Will Bunch
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OK Bloomberg: What panicked billionaires don’t get about a nation that made them so rich | Will Bunch

by Will Bunch
America's billionaires think their ability to work a rigged economic system makes them political geniuses. Voters already know better.
20 years in, Temple’s program in China teaches ‘rule of law’ amid tensions between Beijing and Washington | Trudy Rubin
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Temple’s Chinese program teaches ‘rule of law’ amid tensions between Beijing and Washington

by Trudy Rubin
The success of the Temple program says much about the paradoxes of contemporary China.
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