Guest Commentary

Pay Philadelphia’s Nonprofits Faster

Nonprofits provide many of the services that keep Philadelphians fed, educated and safe. A local leader urges the city to take better care of those who care for us

By Cynthia Figueroa
Guest Commentary

Is Free Assembly the Freedom We’re Forgetting?

Amid the ongoing conversation about free speech, democracy-loving Americans should be paying attention to — and exercising — their First Amendment right to … show up, together

By Alaine K. Arnott
Guest Commentary

Boosting Philly Students’ Financial IQ

Next fall, a new law will mandate personal finance education in all PA high schools. Whether Philadelphia schools will be ready is up to us

By Kerry Woodward
Guest Commentary

School District, Don’t Eliminate What’s Working

A Philadelphia public school teacher argues against the District’s plan to close his school. Give Lankenau Environmental a chance to grow

By Jonathan Hoffmeier
Ideas We Should Steal

Marry the Liberal Arts to Education in Trades, Crafts and Entrepreneurship

A longtime university president encourages Philadelphia-area colleges and universities to partner with community colleges and unions to make connections for fulfillment in careers and life

By Elaine Maimon
Guest Commentary

How Philly Can Add $2 Billion to Its Economy Without Spending a Dime

A former City Councilmember revives a proposal from his time in office that he guarantees will keep more Philadelphians here and boost local businesses

By Bill Green
Guest Commentary

Pomp, Parade and Posterity

The interim CEO of the Constitution Center urges us to mark our calendars for a celebration that reminds us of a fundamental truth: having fun is our civic duty, too

By Vince Stango
The New Urban Order

The Bourgeois Bunker

The upper middle class isn't leaving cities. They’re just eschewing the civic reasons they chose to live there in the first place

By Diana Lind
Guest Commentary

A Powerful Path to Peace?

A local circular economy leader on the fallacy of the scarcity mindset behind Trump’s latest war in the Middle East

By Nicolas Esposito
Guest Commentary

A Region Rises Together — or Not at All

Last in economic mobility among the 50 largest U.S. metros and stagnant in job creation, Greater Philadelphia should, says a chamber of commerce chair and a former U.S. ambassador, unite to succeed

By David L. Cohen and Christopher Franklin