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PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Perspective shifts along Pearl Street Passage

11 years ago

 Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson looks on as he is introduced to speak at a town hall meeting, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015, in Ankeny, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
National Interest

Here’s why Ben Carson has no business running for president

It’s astounding that a surgeon with zero government experience can deem himself sufficiently credentialed to run America. It’ ...

11 years ago

 Left: Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file) Right: A swing set is nearly covered in floodwater on Roundtree Road along the Lynches River in Effingham, S.C., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
National Interest

Republican hypocrites beg for federal relief money: ‘Whatever it costs, it costs’

Here’s my new definition of a liberal: A conservative whose state has been devastated by a climate disaster. When the killer ...

11 years ago

 TV ad for Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidate Kevin Dougherty
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Pa. Supreme Court race eerily quiet

It’s probably one of the most consequential and, so far, least noticed races in the state’s history. The battle for th ...

11 years ago

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 Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt,  speaks during a campaign rally in Springfield, Mass., Saturday, Oct. 3, 2105. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
National Interest

Bernie Sanders and the risk of being soft on guns

Unbeknownst to his liberal fans, Bernie Sanders is notoriously soft on guns — and that could hurt him badly in the left-leaning Democra ...

11 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

DesignPhiladelphia picks: October 8-16

11 years ago

 Jerry Mondesire speaks at a voting rights rally in 2012. (NewsWorks file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Mondesire left his mark on Philly politics

To say that former Philadelphia NAACP President J. Whyatt Mondesire died Sunday at ...

11 years ago

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 A woman visits a makeshift memorial near the road leading to Umpqua Community College Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, in Roseburg, Ore. Armed with multiple guns, Chris Harper Mercer, 26, walked in a classroom at the community college, Thursday, and opened fire, killing several and wounding several others. (AP Photo/John Locher)
National Interest

The scandalous suppression of gun violence research

In the midst of President Obama’s denunciation of gun violence — if you’ve lost track, the latest massacre was on Friday ...

11 years ago

 People bow their heads in prayer during a prayer vigil Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015, in Winston, Ore. The vigil was held in honor of the victims of the fatal shooting at Umpqua Community College on Thursday. (AP Photo/John Locher)
The Philadelphia Experiment

When it comes to gun control white lives don’t matter

Last week, in the mountains of Oregon, about 180 miles from Portland, a heavily armed gunman walked into classrooms at Umpqua Community C ...

11 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Third candidate emerges to challenge Fattah

A third candidate seems poised to enter next year’s Democratic primary challenging Philadelphia U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, who’s ...

11 years ago

 Geneviève Perrier in Lantern Theater Company's production of 'Photograph 51.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: The one-dimensional images in ‘Photograph 51’

They can be brilliant and they can be cynical, petty, cutthroat hypocrites. I’m not referring to the usual suspects – I’m t ...

11 years ago

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 Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin addresses the media following a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)
National Interest

The sheriff and the shootings: An American parable

With respect to the latest bloodbath — the Oregon shootings will soon be supplanted by another — there’s virtually nothing to s ...

11 years ago

Speak Easy
Community

Japanese music video shines a light on abuse in LGBT relationships

A queer Australian filmmaker living in Japan connected to the theme of domestic violence in LGBT relationships. He shares a music video he made, which examines the subject.

11 years ago

 House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of Calif. arrives for a House Republican Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. McCarthy is assuring Republicans he can bring them together, even as emboldened conservatives maneuver to yank their party to the right in the wake of the leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's sudden resignation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
National Interest

Hillary, Benghazi, and accidental candor

Hey, did I call it correctly, or what! Sixteen months ago, when the House Republicans created their special select committee to investiga ...

11 years ago

 Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards looks at papers before testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Planned Parenthood's taxpayer funding. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
National Interest

Two big reasons why the Planned Parenthood persecution is a farce

What a howl it was yesterday when a phalanx of House Republicans staged a ...

11 years ago

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