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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) arrive as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing in Washington in 2022.

Letters to the Editor | Sept. 16, 2024

Inquirer readers on reclaiming the GOP, ending gun violence, and inflation facts.

Letters to the Editor, For The Inquirer

Conservative websites and former President Donald Trump seized on unsubstantiated reports that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating household pets, creating a meme that now flourishes across social media.

Springfield, Trump, and the violent gyrations of the American Dream

Will Bunch | Columnist

For whom the bell tolls | Editorial Cartoon

John Cole, For The Inquirer

A SEPTA Market-Frankford Line train pulls away from the Frankford Transportation Center. SEPTA’s impending budget crisis would not only impact the system’s more than 700,000 daily riders, but its cascading failure would negatively affect the entire region, writes the Editorial Board.

Properly funding SEPTA is essential to Philadelphia’s economic future | Editorial

The Editorial Board

James Earl Jones poses with his honorary Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards in 2012. Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen, died Monday at age 93.

Letters to the Editor | Sept. 15, 2024

Letters to the Editor, For The Inquirer

Springfield, Trump, and the violent gyrations of the American Dream

Springfield, Ohio, was a city striving imperfectly to transcend its racist past. Then came Donald Trump and JD Vance

Will Bunch | Columnist

Conservative websites and former President Donald Trump seized on unsubstantiated reports that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating household pets, creating a meme that now flourishes across social media.

Conservative websites and former President Donald Trump seized on unsubstantiated reports that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating household pets, creating a meme that now flourishes across social media.

Springfield, Trump, and the violent gyrations of the American Dream

Springfield, Ohio, was a city striving imperfectly to transcend its racist past. Then came Donald Trump and JD Vance

Will Bunch | Columnist

Debate reminds us why Trump’s dance with dictators threatens U.S. security

Trudy Rubin | Columnist

Then-President Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to the White House in 2019. Orbán, who Trump cited as a character reference during Tuesday's debate, is Moscow’s mole in trying to divide and paralyze the European Union, writes Trudy Rubin.

Every celebration of Black culture ends with Frankie Beverly’s ‘Before I Let Go’

Elizabeth Wellington | Columnist

Philly soul singer Frankie Beverly performs at the Essence Festival at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on July 7, 2019, in New Orleans. Beverly died Sept. 10. He was 77. (Photo by Donald Traill / Invision)

2025 Cadillac CT5: Competes on price; what about driving?

Scott Sturgis | Columnist

The Cadillac CT5 gets an update for the 2025 model year while still keeping its essential Cadillac-icity.

The debate circus came to town, pulling a caravan of promises past a trail of truth

Helen Ubiñas | Columnist

Makeshift tombstones are part of a “national cemetery” commemorating people who lost their lives to substance abuse-related causes. The memorial was set up across the street from the National Constitution Center ahead of Tuesday's presidential debate.

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A SEPTA Market-Frankford Line train pulls away from the Frankford Transportation Center. SEPTA’s impending budget crisis would not only impact the system’s more than 700,000 daily riders, but its cascading failure would negatively affect the entire region, writes the Editorial Board.

Properly funding SEPTA is essential to Philadelphia’s economic future | Editorial

The Editorial Board

Former President Donald Trump, reflected on a wall, and Vice President Kamala Harris during the presidential debate at the National Constitution Center on Tuesday.

From Kamala Harris, a master class on how to take down a bully | Editorial

The Editorial Board

Who won the presidential debate — Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?

The Editorial Board

Neo-Nazis, alt-right, and white supremacists march the night before the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally through the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.

On 9/11, America faced foreign attackers. Today, the danger comes from within. | Editorial

The Editorial Board

Presidential contenders Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are debating in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Tough questions must be asked and answered about Trump’s plans if he returns to the White House, writes the Editorial Board.

If debate moderators want to hold Trump accountable, they need to ask him these questions | Editorial

The Editorial Board

Special Reports

America’s maternal care system dehumanized me. I became a doula to change it.

I’m a Black doula who took charge of my birth. Now I’m taking on America’s $111 billion maternal care industry.

MaryNissi Lemon, For The Inquirer

MaryNissi Lemon of Lemonlife Doula and Birthing Services explains what it will look like when the baby’s head crowns during the childbirth education class at the Garsen Center, 4704 Leiper St. Phila., Pa. on May 22, 2022.

MaryNissi Lemon of Lemonlife Doula and Birthing Services explains what it will look like when the baby’s head crowns during the childbirth education class at the Garsen Center, 4704 Leiper St. Phila., Pa. on May 22, 2022.

America’s maternal care system dehumanized me. I became a doula to change it.

I’m a Black doula who took charge of my birth. Now I’m taking on America’s $111 billion maternal care industry.

MaryNissi Lemon, For The Inquirer

How I ended up alone in a cell for 45 days

Akeil Robertson-Jowers, For The Inquirer

Philadelphia artist Akeil Robertson-Jowers painted "US#1" while incarcerated. He created the piece in collaboration with other incarcerated men.

5 medical professionals on why they stay as hospital workers flee post-COVID

Mary Adamson, Maureen May, Uhura Free Russ, Latoya Charise Nesbitt, Carlos Aviles, and Jonathan Ley

Mary Adamson (center), an ICU Nurse at Temple University Hospital, with other Temple nurses. Adamson wrote a piece about all of the nurses that remain in the profession.

Six Philadelphians reflect on Black History Month and their hopes for the future | Opinion

Inquirer Opinion Editors, For The Inquirer

Protesters calling to defund the police march down East Market Street near Eighth Street in Center City Philadelphia in June 2020. Protests against racism and police violence continued in Philadelphia for a second week after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

In their own words, 7 moms whose kids were killed by gun violence share what they’ve lost

Helen Ubiñas | Columnist

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