Back in 2004, then-Vice President Dick Cheney horrified conservatives when, at a town-hall meeting in Iowa, he came out in favor of gay marriage, a […]
Basketball writer Derek Bodner is covering the NBA draft for Philadelphia magazine at Sixers Draftland. The results of Thursday night’s NBA draft left many Sixers fans confused […]
Everyone has their safe space. Maybe you like to take a time-out at Rittenhouse Square when the office feels like it’s closing in. Or perhaps […]
The Sixers made the absolute best pick they could have made in taking center Jahlil Okafor with the third pick in the NBA draft. Now, […]
On Monday, the right-thinking people of the Union let out a collective you go girl when South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the removal […]
It was hard not to cheer for Taylor Swift over the past couple days. Less than 24 hours after she penned a blog post criticizing […]
When the arguments about guns and race subside after last week’s Charleston massacre — and, inevitably, they will — there is one moment from the […]
The media are notorious for name-calling. Let me be even clearer. The racist white media and their racist white viewers, listeners and readers are notorious […]
This wasn’t the best day for my editor to ask if I wanted to write about driving on the Schuylkill Expressway. Today it took me […]
My family has gone to Ocean City, New Jersey, every summer since I can remember. When things were tight, we went for a long afternoon […]
The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?
Today marks the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — the day Union soldiers […]
In the ripest days of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was ruled by dictators named Khrushchev and Brezhnev, a dissident voice would be […]
