Politics

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member outlines how Trump’s request that Republican states redistrict to hand his party a midterm advantage has spiraled into an effort at stamping out Black representation in Congress.

Local debates around Gaza, school closings, and ICE all raise the same question: Does anyone care about actual governing, or has Philly fully entered the age of the political grandstand?

A former City Council staffer on how political change requires voters to stop the hypocrisy in our politics

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member discusses how the Trump administration's is trying to cast reporting on the facts and criticizing the president as the cause of political violence

Conoce todos los candidatos, demócratas y republicanos, que aparecerán en las papeletas de los habitantes de Filadelfia el 19 de mayo de 2026

When police die by suicide, their loved ones often lose benefits. Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia, may now change that

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member explains how and why Republican senators are refocusing their political will on maintaining control of our highest court

Bipartisan zoning reform bills that could open up the state to in-law apartments and rooming houses could leave our city out. That would be a mistake

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member points to the long-time prime minister and his party's loss as a beacon of hope to backsliding democracies around the world.

More than half of adult Philadelphians struggle to read. A year-old literacy coalition is calling for a statewide commitment to a teaching method that has worked in Mississippi and elsewhere