Pamela J. Forsythe

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Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?

Arts & Entertainment

Mocking art world sexual inequality, Guerilla Girls return with Moore retrospective

Since 1985, the group has directly confronted gatekeepers who manage, curate, collect, and critique art, staging public actions that are both fact-based and fun.

6 years ago

Punished For Texting In Class.

Goodbye, cruel world: Cursive signs off

Having good-looking penmanship places you just above blacksmiths or switchboard operators in terms of usefulness. You are master of an extinct universe.

6 years ago

People gather on the National Mall in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, to attend a rally in support of President Donald Trump.

Politics & Policy

Divide and conquer: The populist agenda

Populism is in the air, from Mr. Trump’s wild ride, to Brexit, to electoral challenges across Europe. But what is it?

6 years ago

The McPherson Square Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

How I spent my summer vacation — at Philadelphia libraries

It might not be the first place you associate with summer in Philadelphia, but the Free Library is an ideal resort: It’s free, clos ...

6 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Michael Nichols’ virtual safari remembers the magic of photography

Photographs used to be magic: prestidigitation performed by alchemists armed with white umbrellas, light meters, lenses, and endless roll ...

6 years ago

Daryl Tempesta is shown with tape over his mouth in protest in April, in Berkeley, Calif. Demonstrators gathered near the University of California, Berkeley campus amid a strong police presence and rallied to show support for free speech and condemn the views of Ann Coulter and her supporters. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)

The good, the bad, and the ugly of free speech

Free speech is easy to support when you like what’s being said, but that’s not how the First Amendment works. This is somethi ...

6 years ago

Pennsylvania's infamous 7th U.S. Congressional District is said to look like “Goofy kicking Donald Duck.” (United States Department of the Interior)

Politics & Policy

Pennsylvanians’ growing sentiment to make elections fair

There were no pitchforks or torches when I attended a public forum earlier this month at Chestnut Hill United Church about how Pennsylvan ...

7 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

The changing nature of paper reflects the changing way we communicate

If music has charms to calm the savage breast, can art soothe the distraught body politic? “Paperscapes” at the ...

7 years ago

Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus

Politics & Policy

How to rise above populism and demagoguery

It’s almost High Noon in America. Across the land, something unexpected is happening: People on the left and right are coming together. ...

7 years ago

A makeshift tent contains a migrant familiy's few posessions. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)

Politics & Policy

‘Virtual’ refugee journey a somber reminder things could always be worse

How ironic. Just as many Americans were threatening to move to Canada, an installation opened on Independence Mall to replicate the exper ...

7 years ago

The William Penn Annex Post Office occupies the first floor of the federal courthouse at 9th and Market. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Today would be the 100th birthday of the Penn Annex’s handsomest mailman — my dad

I’ll miss William Penn Annex. The Center City post office, stretching from Market to Chestnut along 9th Street, ...

7 years ago

Red Grooms' 'Philadelphia Cornucopia' was created for the city's tricentennial in 1982. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Arts & Entertainment

A ‘Philadelphia Cornucopia’ diminished but still impossible to ignore

In honor of the Democratic National Convention, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts this summer is hosting too many Washingtons to coun ...

7 years ago

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