Guest Commentary

Want Your Voting Rights?

Then, several voting advocates argue, you have to use them — and tell others to do the same

By Clarissa Unger, Jen Domagal-Goldman, Lauren Kunis, and Rebekah Caruthers
Guest Commentary

Fetterman, Do Your Part To Stop Corruption

The City’s first Inspector General prosecuted financial crimes for 24 years. She warns that Congress’s CLARITY Act would make them harder to stop

By Amy Kurland
Guest Commentary

How The Knicks (Yes, the Knicks) are Like Lincoln

A former Philadelphia Mayor on the political and life lessons gleaned from the NBA Finals

By Michael A. Nutter
Guest Commentary

Keep Shining, Philly

The city proved itself a remarkable host this summer. Now, a corporate leader notes, it’s time to keep competing on the world stage

By Roberto E. Perez
Guest Commentary

Philly Trash Doesn’t Have to Burn in Chester

Mayor Parker wants to renew the City’s waste contract with a notorious Chester incinerator. Can City Council be our “clean and green” hero?

By Russell Zerbo
Guest Commentary

Is Haring Historic?

When it comes to the artist’s “We the Youth” mural in Point Breeze, a Philly curator says, well, duh

By RJ Rushmore
Guest Commentary

The Dems Have Been Here Before

Socialists in the big Democratic tent are nothing new, but so are big tears in the party fabric, dating back to FDR’s New Deal and the a fractious 1948 convention in Philadelphia

By David M. Stone
Guest Commentary

What Philadelphia Loses When We Lose Our Disabled Leaders

The city is full of Disabled civic leaders doing extraordinary work — and quietly burning through them. On what real inclusion costs, and what it should look like instead

By Nico Meyering
Guest Commentary

The Heat Tested the 250th. Philly Got an A

The interim leader of the National Constitution Center is proud of the quick thinking and ingenuity of the people who pulled off the Semiquincentennial

By Vince Stango
Guest Commentary

Adaptive Reuse is Not a Loophole

A Philadelphia preservationist argues a City Council policy that changed zoning processes for historic buildings is both intentional and highly effective

By Hanna Stark