Topic: Guest Commentary

As a local business leader notes, it’s not just a subset of Dems who advocate for — and benefit from — policies commonly associated with socialist societies

We call our animals our children. Then why, asks a former pet insurance professional, don’t we plan ahead for their medical care?

August marks the 130th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’s seminal research on Black Philadelphians. It’s a chance to ask — and answer — hard questions about Philly today

Some of Philly’s parks are older than the Constitution. Now, Fairmount Park Conservancy’s CEO says, let’s use them to make us the civic and cultural capital of the nation

A local political activist has an idea we should steal to bring power back to the people

When a city is in crisis, the instinct is to pull inward. That instinct, a local connector says, is the problem.

A local Gen Zer weighs on where they get their rep — and why they really do want to be in an office and maybe even go out for happy hour

… They are, a local citizen argues, models of democracy

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

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