It pains me to think how long it took for doctors to take us seriously. More doctors need to be aware of the early signs of dementia in younger patients, particularly in our area.

When my battalion crossed into Iraq 20 years ago, I thought it was a mistake, but hoped I was wrong and would eventually change my mind. That never happened. We need justice for an unjust war.

We have nerve damage from zip ties, scars from rubber bullets. The city must fully ban these and other "less lethal" measures like tear gas against civilians who aren’t hurting others.

As a board member, I could not, in good conscience, vote on a budget that allocated three times the amount of dollars for school police as it did for athletics programming. Let's change the narrative.

I asked my 9-year-old why he was so eager to go to the Phillies' spring training. "For redemption, for last year," he said.

With Philadelphia regularly recording 500 homicides each year, focused deterrence policing strategies are getting another look. Signe Wilkinson remembers an earlier iteration in the city.

If Rep. Lauren Boebert has the right to tweet out a picture of her young children holding guns and keep her job, then why doesn’t a Black man have that right, too?

I didn’t want to hold office if I didn’t have the majority of the votes. Our democracy is worth more than my personal ambitions.

The solutions to end sexual harassment and retaliation in state government will not come from politicians policing themselves.

I never thought, when conversion therapy radicalized me as a queer activist at 16, that decades later I would still be fighting this dangerous practice. Yet here we are.

Despite what you may have been told, parking cars in crosswalks, medians, and on sidewalks is not an endearing quality of our city.

If my mom had answered my phone call asking her for permission to leave school early, I probably would have been shot.

Based on my research, 80% of Americans must get vaccinated every year to prevent a staggering toll from COVID. Let's draw on our experience meeting past public health challenges to make this happen.

Two former Philadelphia mayors call for a pause in the debate over a new home for the 76ers until the city's next chief executive is elected in November.

Opponents of capital punishment say the system is fallible and the outcomes are irreversible. Proponents say there are some crimes so heinous that justice demands no less.