Your Guide to the 2026 General Election

All the candidates — including PA governor and U.S. reps — on the ballot on November 3

By Courtney Duchene and Lauren McCutcheon

Keeping Us Safe From — or With — AI

An ISIS mass casualty attack was stopped in PA this past week, which, a local former congressman says, opens debate over frontier AI technology being used by law enforcement

By Patrick J. Murphy

Things to Do This Week For America’s 250th

Your curated list of the best semiquincentennial events, exhibits, and activities happening in and around Philly

By Christina Griffith
Guest Commentary

Protect Our Healers

Healthcare workers in the U.S. are five times more likely to experience violence on the job. The head of Penn Medicine and a local U.S. Representative want to change that

By Kevin B. Mahoney and Madeleine Dean

Like the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, RFK Jr. is Learning

Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services seems to have stopped pushing vitamin A to treat measles. CHOP’s renowned immunologist wonders if his reversal will come in time to save PA from an even more massive outbreak?

By Paul Offit
Citizen of the Week

Chef Nick Elmi

The Top Chef and local restaurateur has quietly transformed the lives of middle and high schoolers through the KB Foundation. This week, he hosts the organization’s annual barbecue fundraiser

By Lauren McCutcheon
Guest Commentary

Have We All Been Ed Sheeran?

A local businesswoman and Palestinian refugee explains what a moment in pop culture can teach us about power, responsibility, and the grace to change our minds

By Yasmine Mustafa
Guest Commentary

PA’s Closed Primaries Close Out Democracy. It’s Time to Open Them

Committee of Seventy’s CEO urges legislators to pass Rep. Jared Solomon’s bill to allow 1.5 million independents to vote in state primaries

By Lauren Cristella
Ideas We Should Steal

Safely Making Compost From … Poop?

Philadelphians flush 310 tons of what could be money-making compost every year. Will fears of forever chemical contamination prevent us from cashing in?

By Courtney DuChene
The New Urban Order

The End of Green Roofs?

A new rendering of the Sixers and Flyers stadium in South Philly has our urbanist wondering: Whatever happened to building gardens on city rooftops?

By Diana Lind