Topic: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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