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Car Commercials Have Swerved Right off the Road

I’m glad the Sixers are almost respectable now, and I’m loving following Villanova’s men’s basketball team, except for one thing: the car commercials. I guess because […]

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OPINION: The Unbearable Privilege of Trump Protesters

Picture this: You just received a Facebook event invite to an epic Donald Trump protest in Philly (Women’s March, “Queer Rager,” Muslim travel ban airport […]

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How the City’s New Millennial Advisory Committee Could Change Philly Politics

On Wednesday, the city announced the 21 members of its first-ever Millennial Advisory Committee. The committee, which will meet monthly, is tasked with advising the city […]

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Please Don’t Come Back to Philly, President Trump

A former Pizza Hut spokesman who now holds the position of president of the United States came to Philadelphia last week, and Philadelphians acted accordingly. […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Philly Turned the Other Cheek

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OPINION: It’s Time to Rethink the Office of LGBT Affairs

On Monday, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations (PCHR) released its highly anticipated report on Gayborhood racism, whose findings confirmed that the city’s LGBTQ community […]

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The 2017 Oscar Nominations Are Out, and It’s #GoodNightSoWhite

After two consecutive years of white actors and actresses dominating the acting categories for Hollywood’s biggest night — and two years of the viral hashtag […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: SI Named Penn’s QB a Top 10 Draft Prospect

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Donald Trump Is the President America Deserves

Another day, another insult from president-elect Donald Trump. As you have no doubt heard, on the eve of MLK weekend Trump took to attacking the […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: I. Goldberg Found a New Home

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: Free Pre-K Got Off the Ground

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Johnny Doc Forgets He’s a Democratic Elite, Says Democratic Elites Need to “Wake Up”

It’s hard to overstate how profoundly the Democratic Party screwed up in the 2016 election. Republicans will soon control the White House and both branches of […]

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Want to Solve the Mummers’ Diversity Problem? Just Call It “The White Heritage Parade”

It’s a new year, and the older I get, the more I have begun to realize that some stuff won’t change because it really doesn’t […]

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The Berks Mothers’ Christmas Wish: Their Families’ Freedom

The children wrote to Santa Claus. Their mothers wrote to Gov. Tom Wolf and Ted Dallas (Pennsylvania’s secretary of Human Services). Both sets of letters […]

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The Case for Philly Statehood

Back in July, as the world was reeling from the U.K.’s Brexit vote, Harper Polling asked Pennsylvanians which part of the state they’d like to […]