ColumnistsOpinionAmerican Caligula: Trump’s assassination paranoia threatens us allFearing an assassination plot, Donald Trump is shredding civil liberties while bunkering down in a militarized D.C.Will Bunch | Columnist OpinionBe outraged by the death of Lorenzo Salgado AraujoWill Bunch | Columnist OpinionGraham Platner and the Democrats’ war on expertiseJonathan Zimmerman | Columnist OpinionClimate denial is what history will remember about July 4, 2026 | Will Bunch NewsletterWill Bunch | Columnist OpinionI visited the Great American State Fair so you don't have toJenice Armstrong | Columnist AdvertisementOpinionThe America-turns-250 column Donald Trump doesn’t want me to writeAmericans have been showing our best selves as the nation turns 250, but grifter Trump sees this as a distraction to steal.Will Bunch | Columnist OpinionAnother Jan. 6 coup? Trump is screaming it out loud. | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, the World Cup: Not what, yet better than, I expected.Will Bunch | Columnist OpinionTrump’s Reflecting Pool debacle mirrors what’s ailing AmericaAmericans want the war with Iran to be over, but Trump is more concerned with putting a Mar-a-Lago-esque stamp on the nation’s capital.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist OpinionAmerica at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires.The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.Will Bunch | Columnist OpinionI’ve seen struggles for democracy around the world. It’s painful to see that battle come home.For decades I’ve reported on the struggles of other countries to achieve the kind of free elections that most Americans have taken for granted. The U.S. was a lodestar. That's all changed.Trudy Rubin | Columnist OpinionIn a dark 2026, a Summer of Love breaks out | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, why is Washington, D.C. still occupied by troops?Will Bunch | Columnist OpinionThe Minneapolis 15 indictments are meant to shut you upAn outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.Will Bunch | Columnist OpinionPlatner, Fetterman, and the myth of the working-class politicianA recent feud between Graham Platner and John Fetterman underscores the political differences between the two men. But Jonathan Zimmerman writes that they have one important thing in common.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist OpinionJD Vance can never become president | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, how the 14th Amendment saved U.S. men’s soccer.Will Bunch | Columnist OpinionAs a Black voter, Graham Platner’s ethics don’t bother me — my people can’t afford to wait for a perfect candidateA series of recent disclosures exposed the dark side of the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. But they were not enough to cost him in the primary election — and that’s a good thing.Solomon Jones | Columnist OpinionElon Musk egged on a race riot, then became a trillionaire. What are we even doing?Musk’s climb to obscene, undeserved wealth while wrecking a civil society is the essence of our broken century.Will Bunch | Columnist OpinionTrump could be a winner on Ukraine if he recognized Kyiv’s stunning turnaround of the warUkraine’s drone war has put Russia on the back foot, but Kyiv needs U.S. interceptors to stop Putin’s ballistic missile attacks.Trudy Rubin | Columnist OpinionWhy we should listen to Robert Coles — and to each otherThe influential psychologist spent his life listening to children and their parents, particularly during moments of trauma or crisis. And he urged the rest of us to listen, too.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist Opinion‘The dinosaur’ stumbles as Philly’s Dem machine loses ground in ward elections | ShackamaxonPlus: Did the city overpay for the former Inquirer building? And what happened to those school district job cuts?Daniel Pearson | Columnist OpinionWith or without World Cup tickets, these Philly fans are ready for Sunday — and beyondTry to imagine the World Cup as a kind of March Madness, add into it the international scope and weight of the Summer Olympics, then top it off with the fervor of religious observance.Sabrina Vourvoulias | Columnist See more storiesAdvertisement
OpinionAmerican Caligula: Trump’s assassination paranoia threatens us allFearing an assassination plot, Donald Trump is shredding civil liberties while bunkering down in a militarized D.C.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionAmerican Caligula: Trump’s assassination paranoia threatens us allFearing an assassination plot, Donald Trump is shredding civil liberties while bunkering down in a militarized D.C.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionClimate denial is what history will remember about July 4, 2026 | Will Bunch NewsletterWill Bunch | Columnist
OpinionClimate denial is what history will remember about July 4, 2026 | Will Bunch NewsletterWill Bunch | Columnist
OpinionThe America-turns-250 column Donald Trump doesn’t want me to writeAmericans have been showing our best selves as the nation turns 250, but grifter Trump sees this as a distraction to steal.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionThe America-turns-250 column Donald Trump doesn’t want me to writeAmericans have been showing our best selves as the nation turns 250, but grifter Trump sees this as a distraction to steal.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionAnother Jan. 6 coup? Trump is screaming it out loud. | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, the World Cup: Not what, yet better than, I expected.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionAnother Jan. 6 coup? Trump is screaming it out loud. | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, the World Cup: Not what, yet better than, I expected.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionTrump’s Reflecting Pool debacle mirrors what’s ailing AmericaAmericans want the war with Iran to be over, but Trump is more concerned with putting a Mar-a-Lago-esque stamp on the nation’s capital.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist
OpinionTrump’s Reflecting Pool debacle mirrors what’s ailing AmericaAmericans want the war with Iran to be over, but Trump is more concerned with putting a Mar-a-Lago-esque stamp on the nation’s capital.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist
OpinionAmerica at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires.The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionAmerica at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires.The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionI’ve seen struggles for democracy around the world. It’s painful to see that battle come home.For decades I’ve reported on the struggles of other countries to achieve the kind of free elections that most Americans have taken for granted. The U.S. was a lodestar. That's all changed.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
OpinionI’ve seen struggles for democracy around the world. It’s painful to see that battle come home.For decades I’ve reported on the struggles of other countries to achieve the kind of free elections that most Americans have taken for granted. The U.S. was a lodestar. That's all changed.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
OpinionIn a dark 2026, a Summer of Love breaks out | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, why is Washington, D.C. still occupied by troops?Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionIn a dark 2026, a Summer of Love breaks out | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, why is Washington, D.C. still occupied by troops?Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionThe Minneapolis 15 indictments are meant to shut you upAn outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionThe Minneapolis 15 indictments are meant to shut you upAn outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionPlatner, Fetterman, and the myth of the working-class politicianA recent feud between Graham Platner and John Fetterman underscores the political differences between the two men. But Jonathan Zimmerman writes that they have one important thing in common.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
OpinionPlatner, Fetterman, and the myth of the working-class politicianA recent feud between Graham Platner and John Fetterman underscores the political differences between the two men. But Jonathan Zimmerman writes that they have one important thing in common.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
OpinionJD Vance can never become president | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, how the 14th Amendment saved U.S. men’s soccer.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionJD Vance can never become president | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, how the 14th Amendment saved U.S. men’s soccer.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionAs a Black voter, Graham Platner’s ethics don’t bother me — my people can’t afford to wait for a perfect candidateA series of recent disclosures exposed the dark side of the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. But they were not enough to cost him in the primary election — and that’s a good thing.Solomon Jones | Columnist
OpinionAs a Black voter, Graham Platner’s ethics don’t bother me — my people can’t afford to wait for a perfect candidateA series of recent disclosures exposed the dark side of the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. But they were not enough to cost him in the primary election — and that’s a good thing.Solomon Jones | Columnist
OpinionElon Musk egged on a race riot, then became a trillionaire. What are we even doing?Musk’s climb to obscene, undeserved wealth while wrecking a civil society is the essence of our broken century.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionElon Musk egged on a race riot, then became a trillionaire. What are we even doing?Musk’s climb to obscene, undeserved wealth while wrecking a civil society is the essence of our broken century.Will Bunch | Columnist
OpinionTrump could be a winner on Ukraine if he recognized Kyiv’s stunning turnaround of the warUkraine’s drone war has put Russia on the back foot, but Kyiv needs U.S. interceptors to stop Putin’s ballistic missile attacks.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
OpinionTrump could be a winner on Ukraine if he recognized Kyiv’s stunning turnaround of the warUkraine’s drone war has put Russia on the back foot, but Kyiv needs U.S. interceptors to stop Putin’s ballistic missile attacks.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
OpinionWhy we should listen to Robert Coles — and to each otherThe influential psychologist spent his life listening to children and their parents, particularly during moments of trauma or crisis. And he urged the rest of us to listen, too.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
OpinionWhy we should listen to Robert Coles — and to each otherThe influential psychologist spent his life listening to children and their parents, particularly during moments of trauma or crisis. And he urged the rest of us to listen, too.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
Opinion‘The dinosaur’ stumbles as Philly’s Dem machine loses ground in ward elections | ShackamaxonPlus: Did the city overpay for the former Inquirer building? And what happened to those school district job cuts?Daniel Pearson | Columnist
Opinion‘The dinosaur’ stumbles as Philly’s Dem machine loses ground in ward elections | ShackamaxonPlus: Did the city overpay for the former Inquirer building? And what happened to those school district job cuts?Daniel Pearson | Columnist
OpinionWith or without World Cup tickets, these Philly fans are ready for Sunday — and beyondTry to imagine the World Cup as a kind of March Madness, add into it the international scope and weight of the Summer Olympics, then top it off with the fervor of religious observance.Sabrina Vourvoulias | Columnist
OpinionWith or without World Cup tickets, these Philly fans are ready for Sunday — and beyondTry to imagine the World Cup as a kind of March Madness, add into it the international scope and weight of the Summer Olympics, then top it off with the fervor of religious observance.Sabrina Vourvoulias | Columnist
