Tom McGrath

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From bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

Thomas Paine came. He wrote. And nothing was ever the same again.

Why this chapter of our city’s story might be our best since, well, 1776

The Republican from Bucks County is on a crusade to crush the roots of America’s toxic partisan politics.

Why we are uniquely vulnerable to the president’s economic rampage … and how Philadelphia can (maybe) fortify itself for the future.

Eleven months ago, we wanted him fired. Now a Super Bowl champion, he’s proven everyone wrong.

With the national spotlight and presidential rumors trained on him, is he gearing up to move from Pennsylvania to Pennsylvania Avenue?

Armed with multimillion-dollar marketing budgets, personal injury attorneys have wallpapered the city with ads.

The wild tale of how one Chester County couple’s dream of selling peonies on their sprawling Willistown estate devolved into an epic feud

How young urban professionals of the 1980s reinvented Philly  —  and America.

John Fetterman is staking out positions that have some of his staunchest supporters crying foul. What gives?

Our city’s most important institution hasn’t just been rocked by free-speech woes. It faces an even deeper crisis about what its real purpose is.

This is about more than the future of a transit agency — it’s a fight for the very soul of the region.

Now that the pandemic has emptied offices, boomer residents are aging, and millennials are opting for the ’burbs, where do we go from here?

The Queen Village-based writer is one of America’s most popular novelists.