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 Jacqueline Wiggins (center), a long time resident of the Temple University area, joins her neighbors and students in an April 2016 protest march against a proposed new football stadium. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Community

Opposition to Temple stadium burns brightly one year on

“It is revolting to me that Temple would rather use their money to gentrify a historically black area than to lift them up,” proclaimed a Temple student.

8 years ago

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National Interest

Satire: A very successful day in the life of a Trump re-education grad

I’ve just returned from Trump Re-education Camp, where I graduated with the highest honors after enjoying a thorough mind-cleanse a ...

8 years ago

 Scott Greer (left) and Lindsay Smiling in InterAct Theatre Company's production of 'How to Use a Knife.' (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate 3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘How to Use a Knife’ in a chop-chop kitchen (InterAct Theatre Co.)

The terrific new “How to Use a Knife” comes at you like a play on speed, or maybe a play with no speed limit. What’s mo ...

8 years ago

 In 2015, then Philadelphia Prisons Commissioner Louis Giorla is shown speaking to reporters. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Philadelphia Ethics Board fines former city prisons chief

Former Philadelphia Prisons Commissioner Louis Giorla has agreed to pay the city Ethics Board a $2,000 fine after profiting from a contra ...

8 years ago

 Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross says some of the new stop-and-frisk training and auditing that began in 2016 is starting to pay off, but the department's work is far from over. (Bastiaan Slabbers for NewsWorks)
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Courts & Law

ACLU report on Philly stop-and-frisk is nothing to celebrate

A report publishe ...

8 years ago

 In this Feb. 11, 2017 file photo, comedian Kathy Griffin attends the Clive Davis and The Recording Academy Pre-Grammy Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)
National Interest

Kathy Griffin’s photo: Shock, apology, hypocrisy

For a few fervent hours yesterday, Trump defenders thought they had found a fabulous cause celebre. But ...

8 years ago

 Kevin Rodden (left)  and Ethan Lipkin as Hugh O'Neill, in the Irish Heritage Theatre co-production with Plays and Players of 'Making History.' (Photo courtesy of Carlos Forbes) 
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Making History’ both by doing and by writing

The colorful historical figure Hugh O’Neill, the chief of an Irish clan as well as the British Earl of Tyrone, would swing both way ...

8 years ago

 Republican Greg Gianforte greets supporters at a hotel ballroom in Bozeman, Montana, on May 25, after winning Montana's sole congressional seat. In his speech, Gianforte apologized for a altercation at his campaign headquarters with a reporter on the eve of the special election. The altercation led to a misdemeanor assault citation. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan)
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Politics & Policy

Greg Gianforte and the need for civic education

Public schools have to teach a better way of behaving in public. Alas, in recent years, there’s very little about preparing them to ...

8 years ago

 Martin Schulz, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Chancellor candidate for the upcoming general elections addresses the media after first projections for the state elections in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia were announced at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May 14, 2017. First exit polls predict significant gains for Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic party. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
National Interest

Trump bridges the partisan divide. Just not ours.

Isn’t it awesome how Donald Trump brings people together, bridges the partisan divide, and inspires political parties to set aside ...

8 years ago

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National Interest

A Memorial Day hero whom Trump will never honor

Memorial Day honors the roughly 670,000 American soliders who have died fighting for freedom abroad. But today we need to add one more ca ...

8 years ago

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Courts & Law

U.S. incarceration rates too high, too lengthy, too arbitrary

I know not whether laws be right,Or whether laws be wrong,All that we know who lie in jail,Is th ...

8 years ago

 Hanna Khoury, an Israeli Arab, plays violin, and Udi Bar-David, an Israeli Jew, plays cello. (Stacia Friedman
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Arts & Entertainment

Everyone’s talking. Is anyone listening?

A Jew and two Arabs walk into a room. They play beautiful music together, erasing the cultural, political, and religious boundaries that ...

8 years ago

Paul Cherashore of the Philadelphia Overdose Prevention Initiative holds a dose of naloxone, an antidote for opioid overdoses. (Courtenay Harris Bond)
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Health

‘People die of stigma. They don’t die from heroin.’

Paul Yabor, 55, an activist in the HIV/AIDs and harm reduction communities who suffered from a substance use disorder himself, died last week Tuesday of a drug overdose.

8 years ago

 President Donald Trump and NATO leaders watch a flyover during a transfer ceremony at the new NATO headquarters, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Brussels. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National Interest

Putin’s stooge disses Europe and sickens our allies

Joseph Stalin’s ghost took a look at Donald Trump yesterday and chuckled to himself: “I sure wish Truman and Eisenhower had d ...

8 years ago

 Mary Martello as Rose in the Arden Theatre Company production of 'Gypsy.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Hats off (and gloves, and stockings and…) to ‘Gypsy’

Let’s get right to the point: the ending. It’s the final number of “Gypsy,” when Rose — the ultimate stage moth ...

8 years ago

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