Inquirer readers on Trump’s ballroom, Australian politics, and the cost of illegal tire dumping.

Are the deans of American medical schools alarmed? I know they are. So why haven’t more spoken out — and why hasn’t American academic medicine spoken with anything approaching a unified voice?

The plan tramples Venezuela’s sovereignty, benefits corrupt interests, and will likely fail to deliver for the American people.

Inquirer readers on renaming an aircraft carrier after Donald Trump, ICE arrests break records, and remembering Barack Obama on the mall.

We have seen misinformation about birth control spread — false claims that common forms of contraception are abortifacients — designed to create legal grounds to restrict them.

Three lawyers who still work in the district attorney’s office testified about the sloppy handling of a bid to overturn a 2009 murder conviction — and accused their boss of a cover-up.

The president has always been an entertainer — but staging spectacles from the Oval Office is precisely what autocrats do to boost their image.

It’s a big life change, so take things one step at a time.

Inquirer readers weigh in on the war on woke and the importance of vaccines.

The overall tone of a parliamentary session I attended during a recent visit was kind, even jovial. It reminded me that we have to learn how to argue without the anger that’s infected our politics.

The president’s insults to Canada’s sovereignty and military have threatened ties between two countries long bound together by friendship and trade.

None of the current players were on the team when the 14-year-old was killed in 2022. But they’re still playing in the shadow of “that tragedy” — and hoping for their first winning season in years.

Rarely recognized for what they do, poll workers ensure elections run fairly, smoothly, and efficiently.

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

Inquirer readers on the death of Dolly Parton and President Trump’s new economic sanctions on Iran.

With midterms weeks away, the decision clears the way for a rule change that feels for all the world like voter suppression.

If ICE is being used to indiscriminately terrorize communities and ignore constitutional protections while disregarding its public safety charge, what is the point of its continued existence?

The justices furthered his effort to sow confusion about voting by mail instead of joining other courts in calling it what it was.

Plus: Jason Kelce adds to the confusion on data centers, and the city’s most recent property valuations set off a firestorm of consternation.

From his early playing days at Division III Mount Union to becoming Iowa State’s winningest head coach, Matt Campbell has built a career that has prepared him for his highest-profile opportunity yet.

If the Eagles are the team they should be, then the gap between the Birds and Cowboys won’t be a question for long.

He says some of his favorite stretches of the trail were in Pennsylvania. “When people are taking care of you and bringing you caramel frappes on the trail, the rocks don’t matter.”

It’s too earlier to say what this team could achieve in Matt Campbell’s first season as head coach, but the Nittany Lions look to have the pieces for a solid 2026 campaign. Here’s what we know.

"Ring of fire" thunderstorms and a warm ocean may help explain the summer of floods in the Philly region.

Plus, learn Matt Campbell’s origin story.