Letters to the Editor | Oct. 6, 2026

The Pennsylvania senator’s gentle advocacy for NIH funding has had little apparent impact on the president he wholeheartedly supports.

The women this impacts aren’t choosing between a midwife and a hospital. In 23 counties, there is no hospital. They are choosing between an attendant who carries a lifesaving drug and one who doesn’t.

The senator’s problem — and why he’s losing Democrats across the country — is that regardless of his earnest belief in what he’s doing, he’s wrong.

John Cole on Sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s court testimony about how she became aware of the problems plaguing her office, an agency where a super-hero may be needed to untangle all of the dysfunction.

Inquirer readers on new rules for tailgate parties at Eagles games, the deception of Hannah Gann, and efforts to save the Academy of Natural Sciences museum.

Making daylight saving time permanent would only further institutionalize a state-controlled and sanctioned system of artificial time, extending a temporal framework that has long been tied to war.

A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.

There are some ways in which fear and loathing about data centers intersect with environmental concerns. But climate change is becoming impossible to ignore with fires, floods, and unprecedented heat.

The Philadelphia district attorney conceded a 2009 murder conviction without reinterviewing witnesses or reviewing trial records — and it’s not an isolated case.

It’s easy to mock hyperbolic claims about voter fraud — but Pennsylvania election officials are doing the quiet, careful work of actually protecting the vote.

The Bucks County commissioner would bring some much-needed compassion to a Congress that has failed to uphold its sworn oath to support the Constitution and serve as a check on the executive branch.

John Cole on the potential perils of President Trump’s hands-off approach to A.I. regulation.

Inquirer readers on utility surcharges in Pennsylvania and a milestone for the Russell Byers Charter School.

Two of the many ways survivors of sexual assault cope are through early normalizing and minimizing phases. But our systems tend to treat whatever a survivor says during these as the whole story.

Plus: Neighbors fight historic district designation, Curtis Jones Jr. should retire for real, and perhaps there's a new career awaiting former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin.

"She’s part of our bringing delight and surprise and letting it ripple through the city."

Inquirer readers on a New York Times writer’s essay about failing schools and the congressional testimony of former special counsel Jack Smith.

While the ruling does not make a determination on the legality of what are known as “third-country” deportations, it is being celebrated as a victory by the Trump administration.

What should be a joyous reboot of “The Cosby Show” spinoff, which originally debuted in 1987, has been tainted by vicious online commentary about how the cast has aged, especially star Jasmine Guy.

As of Saturday, 108 measles cases had been reported across the state this year, the most since 2019, when New York was the epicenter of a national outbreak.

The suspected attack was part of a complex, multipronged Iranian plot to strike aircraft and kill some of the several hundred American personnel stationed at the base, RAF Fairford, officials said.

Wawa was the only company to take the top spot in two regions.

In the 1970s and ’80s, Bakker and his first wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, rode to fame and riches preaching the gospel of prosperity.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito highlights a surge in emergency appeals before the court during President Donald Trump's second administration in his new book, "So Ordered."

Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that offer clues to the universe's evolution.