Cartoon: Will Joe Biden abandon the public option?

John Cole on the Pennsylvania GOP’s soft spot for Democratic Sen. John Fetterman.

Winters on Gov. Josh Shapiro calling out Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine misinformation after two children die of measles amid rising cases in Pennsylvania.

John Cole on the governor’s new executive order clamping down on data center growth — and the competing pressures that may have been behind his change of heart.

John Cole on how data centers are rewiring Pennsylvania’s landscape.

John Cole on reports that President Trump hid in a catering cart to secretly board another transport to slip out of Turkey after a credible threat to Air Force One.

John Cole on President Trump turning a New Jersey voter registration glitch into a mountain — and a pretext for passing the SAVE America Act.

John Cole examines who stands to suffer most from the perjury allegations facing Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office.

Sen. John Fetterman has threatened to leave the Democratic Party. John Cole imagines the day they stop talking him out of it.

John Cole on the rising body count of President Trump’s immigration enforcement, which has left four people dead at the hands of ICE agents this year.

John Cole on how sports betting sites use personalized pitches from celebrities like Phillies slugger Bryce Harper to hook their biggest spenders — known as “whales” — and keep them on the line.

John Cole takes note of President Trump’s support of the SAVE America Act — a measure that critics fear could create barriers to voting for eligible citizens.

John Cole looks back on America’s rocky road to 250.

John Cole takes note of a City Hall couple that found a loophole in Philadelphia’s Deferred Retirement Option Plan worth $750,000: quit for a day, then go right back to work.

President Trump promised to “drain the swamp.” John Cole wonders why he’s now immersed in one.

John Cole takes note of how Philadelphia has so far received high marks for its infrastructure and organization while serving as one of the American host cities for the 2026 World Cup.

John Cole on President Trump’s Iran nuclear deal, which critics say borrows heavily from an earlier agreement by President Obama and, so far at least, delivers less.

John Cole takes note of the challenge facing Bob Brady, Philadelphia’s recently reelected Democratic chair, as he navigates the pull between his party’s progressive wing and its moderate base.

The courts keep ruling against a president that one federal judge called “authoritarian.” John Cole takes note.

John Cole on City Council’s rejection of Mayor Parker’s proposed tax on rideshare services in Philadelphia, a sharp rebuke that stalls her efforts to identify additional revenue for city schools.

Attorneys on both sides of the case have decisions to make about ow to move forward.

President Donald Trump also ordered the Interior and Agriculture departments to make it easier for ranchers to kill the wolves if necessary.

The assembly approved a resolution favoring the Equal Earth projection, a map that supporters say shows the true size of countries. Only the U.S. voted no.

The Texas crossover star got back to the country - and sang the Sixers theme song - at Xfinity Mobile Arena

The attorney general has repeatedly said the fund is dead, but President Donald Trump has been more circumspect, indicating his support for compensating people including the Jan. 6 rioters.

The federal government can't force the Garden State to assist ICE in immigration enforcement, U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner wrote in the opinion dismissing the case.