ColumnistsPhiladelphia City Council could learn a lot from Baltimore and its mayor | ShackamaxonWhile some may look to New York, Charm City has much more in common with Philadelphia than the Big Apple.Daniel Pearson | Columnist Did Amazon just deliver a blow to Josh Shapiro’s White House dreams?Will Bunch | Columnist Memo to Democrats: No more purity tests. (I’m looking at you, Chris Rabb.)Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist Kent State and the silence of American campuses | Will Bunch NewsletterWill Bunch | Columnist New Hope has the Star Wars Day celebrations you’re looking forStephanie Farr | Columnist AdvertisementTrump finds a ‘Southern strategy’ to save his dreams of dictatorshipFrom friendly grand juries to Jim Crow voting maps, the former Confederacy looks to save Trump’s autocratic ambitions.Will Bunch | Columnist Despite a long list of complaints against her office, Sheriff Rochelle Bilal can do no wrong in the eyes of Council | ShackamaxonPlus: A year without a commerce director, the school board president feels the heat from Council, and Dean Adler speaks his mind.Daniel Pearson | Columnist SCOTUS ruling on voting rights is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to decimate Black political powerFrom lawsuits to executive orders to FBI raids to confiscate ballots in Democratic cities with large Black populations, this administration has long sought to target African American voting power.Solomon Jones | Columnist SCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wakeup call from a dreamBoomers growing up in an era of rising Black political power thought America had changed for good. What went wrong?Will Bunch | Columnist King Charles III subtly reminds Congress about the importance of checks on kingly powerShared U.S.-British values that animated our Founding Fathers rest on limits to the power of kings and presidents.Trudy Rubin | Columnist The White House correspondents’ dinner shouldn’t be rescheduledTrump doesn’t respect journalists or the First Amendment. He doesn’t bother to hide his antipathy, singling out female journalists and people of color for abuse. Why give him another chance to do so?Jenice Armstrong | Columnist Are ICE warehouses just another Trump grift? | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus: Ben Franklin on impeachment vs. assassination.Will Bunch | Columnist Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump dinner shooting defines a violent, unserious AmericaAnother Trump assassination try leaves dinner guests wanting to party on, in a laughingstock America, numb to violence.Will Bunch | Columnist Pa.’s Rep. Summer Lee really showed up and showed out last week on Capitol HillOn Thursday, she squared off against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a House Committee on Education and Workforce budget hearing on the issue of Black maternal mortality rates.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist Trump administration wants to give Afghans who helped U.S. forces a choice between death and disasterThe government is trying to send up to 1,100 Afghan refugees to Congo, an African nation enmeshed in brutal civil wars that have killed and displaced millions.Trudy Rubin | Columnist Some City Council members could learn a lesson from Richard Lazer’s PPA leadership | ShackamaxonUnder Lazer, the Philadelphia Parking Authority went from a patronage den to a civic asset.Daniel Pearson | Columnist Mayday! Can a May 1 general strike save American democracy?The No Kings movement faces its toughest test in barely a week. Will students and workers walk out to protest Trumpism?Will Bunch | Columnist Trump’s extended ceasefire shows his desperation to exit his failed Iran war — but he doesn’t know howAmericans are endangered by his inability to conduct a foreign policy that goes beyond threats and military force.Trudy Rubin | Columnist At Penn, we’re all Jews nowI haven’t met a single person where I teach at Penn who thinks that handing over the names of our Jewish employees to the government is a good idea — so let’s just say everyone who works here is.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist ‘To Philly With Love,’ a new Hallmark movie, wants to be ‘National Treasure’ meets ‘The Notebook’Even the Hallmark Channel is getting in on the nation's 250th anniversary with a new history-mystery romance set in Philadelphia.Stephanie Farr | Columnist See more storiesAdvertisement
Philadelphia City Council could learn a lot from Baltimore and its mayor | ShackamaxonWhile some may look to New York, Charm City has much more in common with Philadelphia than the Big Apple.Daniel Pearson | Columnist
Philadelphia City Council could learn a lot from Baltimore and its mayor | ShackamaxonWhile some may look to New York, Charm City has much more in common with Philadelphia than the Big Apple.Daniel Pearson | Columnist
Memo to Democrats: No more purity tests. (I’m looking at you, Chris Rabb.)Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
Memo to Democrats: No more purity tests. (I’m looking at you, Chris Rabb.)Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
Trump finds a ‘Southern strategy’ to save his dreams of dictatorshipFrom friendly grand juries to Jim Crow voting maps, the former Confederacy looks to save Trump’s autocratic ambitions.Will Bunch | Columnist
Trump finds a ‘Southern strategy’ to save his dreams of dictatorshipFrom friendly grand juries to Jim Crow voting maps, the former Confederacy looks to save Trump’s autocratic ambitions.Will Bunch | Columnist
Despite a long list of complaints against her office, Sheriff Rochelle Bilal can do no wrong in the eyes of Council | ShackamaxonPlus: A year without a commerce director, the school board president feels the heat from Council, and Dean Adler speaks his mind.Daniel Pearson | Columnist
Despite a long list of complaints against her office, Sheriff Rochelle Bilal can do no wrong in the eyes of Council | ShackamaxonPlus: A year without a commerce director, the school board president feels the heat from Council, and Dean Adler speaks his mind.Daniel Pearson | Columnist
SCOTUS ruling on voting rights is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to decimate Black political powerFrom lawsuits to executive orders to FBI raids to confiscate ballots in Democratic cities with large Black populations, this administration has long sought to target African American voting power.Solomon Jones | Columnist
SCOTUS ruling on voting rights is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to decimate Black political powerFrom lawsuits to executive orders to FBI raids to confiscate ballots in Democratic cities with large Black populations, this administration has long sought to target African American voting power.Solomon Jones | Columnist
SCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wakeup call from a dreamBoomers growing up in an era of rising Black political power thought America had changed for good. What went wrong?Will Bunch | Columnist
SCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wakeup call from a dreamBoomers growing up in an era of rising Black political power thought America had changed for good. What went wrong?Will Bunch | Columnist
King Charles III subtly reminds Congress about the importance of checks on kingly powerShared U.S.-British values that animated our Founding Fathers rest on limits to the power of kings and presidents.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
King Charles III subtly reminds Congress about the importance of checks on kingly powerShared U.S.-British values that animated our Founding Fathers rest on limits to the power of kings and presidents.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
The White House correspondents’ dinner shouldn’t be rescheduledTrump doesn’t respect journalists or the First Amendment. He doesn’t bother to hide his antipathy, singling out female journalists and people of color for abuse. Why give him another chance to do so?Jenice Armstrong | Columnist
The White House correspondents’ dinner shouldn’t be rescheduledTrump doesn’t respect journalists or the First Amendment. He doesn’t bother to hide his antipathy, singling out female journalists and people of color for abuse. Why give him another chance to do so?Jenice Armstrong | Columnist
Are ICE warehouses just another Trump grift? | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus: Ben Franklin on impeachment vs. assassination.Will Bunch | Columnist
Are ICE warehouses just another Trump grift? | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus: Ben Franklin on impeachment vs. assassination.Will Bunch | Columnist
Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump dinner shooting defines a violent, unserious AmericaAnother Trump assassination try leaves dinner guests wanting to party on, in a laughingstock America, numb to violence.Will Bunch | Columnist
Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump dinner shooting defines a violent, unserious AmericaAnother Trump assassination try leaves dinner guests wanting to party on, in a laughingstock America, numb to violence.Will Bunch | Columnist
Pa.’s Rep. Summer Lee really showed up and showed out last week on Capitol HillOn Thursday, she squared off against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a House Committee on Education and Workforce budget hearing on the issue of Black maternal mortality rates.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist
Pa.’s Rep. Summer Lee really showed up and showed out last week on Capitol HillOn Thursday, she squared off against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a House Committee on Education and Workforce budget hearing on the issue of Black maternal mortality rates.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist
Trump administration wants to give Afghans who helped U.S. forces a choice between death and disasterThe government is trying to send up to 1,100 Afghan refugees to Congo, an African nation enmeshed in brutal civil wars that have killed and displaced millions.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Trump administration wants to give Afghans who helped U.S. forces a choice between death and disasterThe government is trying to send up to 1,100 Afghan refugees to Congo, an African nation enmeshed in brutal civil wars that have killed and displaced millions.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Some City Council members could learn a lesson from Richard Lazer’s PPA leadership | ShackamaxonUnder Lazer, the Philadelphia Parking Authority went from a patronage den to a civic asset.Daniel Pearson | Columnist
Some City Council members could learn a lesson from Richard Lazer’s PPA leadership | ShackamaxonUnder Lazer, the Philadelphia Parking Authority went from a patronage den to a civic asset.Daniel Pearson | Columnist
Mayday! Can a May 1 general strike save American democracy?The No Kings movement faces its toughest test in barely a week. Will students and workers walk out to protest Trumpism?Will Bunch | Columnist
Mayday! Can a May 1 general strike save American democracy?The No Kings movement faces its toughest test in barely a week. Will students and workers walk out to protest Trumpism?Will Bunch | Columnist
Trump’s extended ceasefire shows his desperation to exit his failed Iran war — but he doesn’t know howAmericans are endangered by his inability to conduct a foreign policy that goes beyond threats and military force.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Trump’s extended ceasefire shows his desperation to exit his failed Iran war — but he doesn’t know howAmericans are endangered by his inability to conduct a foreign policy that goes beyond threats and military force.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
At Penn, we’re all Jews nowI haven’t met a single person where I teach at Penn who thinks that handing over the names of our Jewish employees to the government is a good idea — so let’s just say everyone who works here is.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
At Penn, we’re all Jews nowI haven’t met a single person where I teach at Penn who thinks that handing over the names of our Jewish employees to the government is a good idea — so let’s just say everyone who works here is.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
‘To Philly With Love,’ a new Hallmark movie, wants to be ‘National Treasure’ meets ‘The Notebook’Even the Hallmark Channel is getting in on the nation's 250th anniversary with a new history-mystery romance set in Philadelphia.Stephanie Farr | Columnist
‘To Philly With Love,’ a new Hallmark movie, wants to be ‘National Treasure’ meets ‘The Notebook’Even the Hallmark Channel is getting in on the nation's 250th anniversary with a new history-mystery romance set in Philadelphia.Stephanie Farr | Columnist
