Answering Trump

The University and The City

In a series responding to Trump’s election, a Drexel professor imagines three local game-changing initiatives. This week: Government internships for all college students

By Richardson Dilworth

Inauguration Blues

The Philly congressional delegation’s boycott was wrong and hypocritical. But it’s not too late to be constructive

By Larry Platt

The Real Fake News

Media coverage of a Drexel professor’s “White Genocide” Christmas tweet raises the question: What is news, anyway?

By Larry Platt

Silver Lining Or Wishful Thinking?

Trump’s election might just bring progressives together more than ever before

By David A. Love
Trump and The City

Infrastructure

The fourth of an ongoing series navigating our new reality

By Jeremy Nowak

Trump’s Unlikely Friends

White women and black men helped elect him. What’s up with that?

By David A. Love
Trump and The City

Housing

The third in a series on how to navigate our new reality.

By Jeremy Nowak
Trump and the City

Law Enforcement

The second of an ongoing series navigating our new reality

By Jeremy Nowak
The Citizen Recommends

Philadelphia Ranked Choice Voting

This month, Maine voters approved a better system for deciding who wins elections. A group of Philly activists want to bring it here next

By Stephen St. Vincent

Dear President-Elect Trump

Local entrepreneur and state championship high school basketball coach Seth Berger urges the Donald to bridge the nation’s racial divide—as only he can

By Seth Berger