Politics

Bloating pension payments contribute to our staff shortage. Here, ways to solve the issue

Jeff Brown may be under investigation by the Ethics Board. Others have their issues. Which candidate represents the cleanest, least purely transactional style of governing?

Predictions on election math, messaging that matters, and who will emerge the winner in May’s primary from a former Mayor candidate-turned-award winning documentarian

Pennsylvania is one of only nine states that denies independent voters from casting a ballot in the primaries. A Republican state senator has a plan to change that — and now is the time

It's guns, the MSNBC anchor and Citizen Board member asserts, not the knowledge that gay and trans people exist

Who's running? City Council? Commissioners? Controller? Judges? We've got you covered, Philadelphia voters

Mayoral and Council candidates must vow to strengthen our local democracy — and make sure government works for the people. Committee of Seventy’s chief policy officer lays out with what they should do

Round 2 of our mayoral interview series explored how five candidates will grow jobs and help Philadelphians build a pathway to the middle class. Here’s what they said

Gov. Ron DeSantis is not alone in attacking free expression on campus, where censorship is coming from the right and left. Here, a former university president on the dangers of such Orwellian assaults on democracy itself

When you vote in the May primary and November general election, choose City Council candidates with both leadership experience and new ideas