The Smuk Report

Have the GOP Lost Their Smuking Minds?

Ken Smukler takes on Paul Ryan, Bernie’s death march, and Hillary's encounter with angry coal-miners

By Larry Platt

Business, Man!

Can Tayyib Smith and Meegan Denenberg’s Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship economically empower a generation of Philadelphians?

By Larry Platt

Politics Through The Looking Glass

Criticizing a local PAC for lack of transparency sounds like good government in action. In practice, it’s an endorsement of the status quo

By Larry Platt

“Don’t Forget Us”

Ed Snider’s passing prompts a look back to when Connie Smukler and a group of area housewives led the movement to save 1.5 million Soviet Jews

By Larry Platt
Sam Katz To Warren Buffett

“I’m F@#*%ing Nuts!”

The Wall Street Journal revisits a 20-year-old street brawl between the perennial mayoral candidate-turned-documentarian and the Oracle of Omaha

By Larry Platt

Jay’s On The Case

Jay Coen Gilbert of Wayne-based B Lab is in North Carolina with a team of socially conscious CEOs, trying to repeal the bathroom law

By Larry Platt
The Smuk Report

Prince Memorial Edition

Political consultant Ken Smukler’s latest election commentary on national black radio

By Larry Platt
The Smukler Report

Big Apple Edition

Political consultant Ken Smukler’s latest election commentary on national black radio

By Larry Platt

Max Tuttleman Wants to Wage War on Heroin

The up-and-coming philanthrocapitalist wants to get overdose reversal drug Narcan to addicts throughout the city. What could be so hard?

By Larry Platt

“Build, Baby, Build!”

Next Monday, pro-development “anarchist” Sonja Trauss, recently featured in the New York Times, leads a discussion on affordable housing, development and the future of the city. Join us!

By Larry Platt