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Lessons in democracy, robot soldier anxiety, the inexorableness of green energy and more smart stories that explain what happened this week

Taxing the rich, spending less on food, an EPA red herring, Jesse Jackson’s fashion statements and more smart stories that explain what happened this week

Jeffrey Rosen is out. Now, the NCC must decide if it will remain a genteel place of scholarship or become the antidote to the threat to democracy

A year when kids became heroes, sports took the spotlight, and our sandwich finally got its due

A new City law — believed to be the first in the nation — requires gun shops to post signs discouraging Philadelphians from buying guns for those not allowed to own them

The bestselling author, magazine writer and local icon died this weekend. Here’s why she mattered

The South Philly journalist reaches 400,000 readers everyday with Tangle’s blend of media roundup, analysis and self-reflection. His goal? To help Americans see past their own biases

Foremost local labor expert Francis Ryan puts the now-ended DC 33 work stoppage into context, both historically — and for the future

More than 16,000 people in Boston have learned to manage their money and grow their credit through a program that is now expanding to Philly. Can a partnership among community groups start locals on the path to wealth?

RFK Jr. just fired the entire staff of LIHEAP, the federally funded program that helps a quarter million Pennsylvanians pay their heating bills. What does that mean for you?