Voice: Larry Platt

A longtime political mad genius has an answer to Trump’s challenge to the legitimacy of November’s election. Oh yeah, and he just got out of prison.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw on her crime fighting plan, which is full of state-of-the-art reforms. So here’s a novel thought…why not fund it?

Murders raging. Trash piling up. Police both running amok and turning a blind eye to enforcing laws. How’d we get here?

In Chicago, Lori Lightfoot is out with a visionary post-Covid plan. A group of Philly civic leaders are working on doing the same. Here’s hoping it’s a first step.

The reaction to the NFL star’s anti-Semitic postings flips the usual script … and may just offer a constructive way forward in Black / Jewish relations

The Radnor-based firm invests in companies that address inequity, like Reconnect, whose interview with Rayshard Brooks was released just after his death at the hands of Atlanta police

Recent events at The Inquirer and The New York Times raise questions both about racial hierarchy and the commitment to open discourse

Penn Medicine’s guru of innovation may be the smartest person in Philly you haven’t heard of

Less police funding wouldn’t have spared George Floyd’s life or upended systemic racism. But real reform of police unions might

The MSNBC anchor and Citizen board member on covering the protests, getting shot by a so-called rubber bullet, and whether the First Amendment is in peril