In my last column, I covered the war on ICE by the protestors who are disrupting ICE operations and attacking […]
Thom Nickels: Come for the music, stay for the virtue-signaling
The city’s last big Benjamin Franklin Parkway concert was a first-ever New Year’s Eve concert in 2025. Headlined by LL […]
Guy Ciarrocchi: Minneapolis or Nashville —which path will Philly choose?
Organized chaos in Minneapolis. It’s been in the spotlight — understandably. ICE raids. Protests. Confrontation. Deaths. Over 3,000 arrests and […]
From the Editors: Radicals on City Council want to make Philly into the next Minneapolis. Don’t let them.
After witnessing the month of tumult, chaos, and even death that Minneapolis has endured in their winter of discontent, some […]
Seth Higgins: An assault on a SEPTA Bus — and what it reveals about modern politics
Gen Z is the first generation to develop a native slang entirely at ease with our internet saturated culture. For […]
John Rossi: When Olney was a ‘suburb’
I grew up in the years just after World War II in a pleasant contained place that I call Lower […]
From the Editors: Parker deserves credit for decline in crime
This past year, 2025, saw unprecedented drops in the murder rates of cities around the country, with Philadelphia being one […]
Thom Nickels: Bilal and Krasner try to re-write the facts
The death of Renee Nicole Good — presented as a “murder” by an ICE agent — has shown the American […]