Topic: Guest Commentary

Philadelphia’s struggle with transit cuts should spur reform in another area in need of attention: Housing. A housing policy expert shares ideas Philly should steal from around the country

Think you have what it takes to make democracy work? Committee of Seventy’s CEO on how and why you should become one of 5,100 elected poll workers this year.

The former Temple Law School Dean and longtime political advisor worries that it may be too late to save what is great about America. But persevere we must

… and didn’t know it. A local tech innovator and former refugee had no place to call home for 30 years. Here’s how she suggests helping our immigrant neighbors.

The federal funding freeze this week is evidence, a Kensington resident and nonprofit leader argues, that we must plan for the worst — together

Women Against Abuse’s executive director on what we all can do to protect women — and men — from domestic violence amidst the Trump-era surge in disturbing and dangerous rhetoric

A Black pastor and organizer extolls the power of disparate communities coming together to fight a Sixers arena on the edge of Chinatown — and vows to keep working for "one Philadelphia"

… and other concerns that will shape Philly politics in 2025, from a Drexel University politics professor

The president’s recent commutations of federal death sentences, according to a former Chester County DA, is part of a long record of dereliction and misjudgement

A Kensington community leader refuses to share the Civil Rights icon’s celebration with an inauguration that validates the January 6, 2021 insurrection