Voice: Larry Platt

In his musical tribute to James Baldwin, iconoclastic singer and songwriter Stew takes us back to a time when there was such a thing as public intellectuals

Ken Smukler lays out the litany of woman-hating acts and actors atop the Trump campaign and compares Trump to Chris Brown.

Lavish gifts, blown prosecutions, questionable judgments, and an FBI investigation into his finances. What went wrong?

What we talk about when we talk about Frank Rizzo

The city data scientist-turned-entrepreneur is taking on blight … because someone’s gotta do it

Testimony in the Kathleen Kane trial ended on Friday. How’d we get to this absurd point?

With Johnny Doc now in the Feds’ crosshairs, is it time to think innovatively about taking on our culture of corruption?

Ken Smukler on Hillary Clinton (two stars) and the Democrats in Philly

An author of a new book, along with some old Kennedy friends, were here this week to remember the last truly authentic candidate. Hillary, are you listening?

The former Mayor will headline YIP’s political StorySlam, co-sponsored by The Citizen, on Wednesday night