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50 Years After Bloody Sunday, a Push for Racial Fairness in Sentencing

I caught up with State Sen. Vincent Hughes on Sunday afternoon by phone — he had spent the weekend in Selma, Alabama, joining the 50th […]

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Does My Keurig Make Me a Bad Person?

Today’s question: Can you own a Keurig coffee maker and still be a good person? I’m asking for a friend.

October 20, 2013; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy (25) yells at Dallas Cowboys fans before the game at Lincoln Financial Field. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Pittenger-USA TODAY Sports
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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

We were resigned to the Sixers. Hey, it’s a long-term plan, right? And we’d sort of come around on the Phillies. (Maybe Ryan Howard can […]

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The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week Ending March 6th

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?

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Medicating Women’s Feelings? What Else Is New?

According to a piece in the New York Times that ran on Sunday, “at least one in four women in America now takes a psychiatric […]

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Welcome to Salary Cap City

Welcome to Salary Cap City, the sports town where we don’t win a heck of a lot, but by gosh, we have an awful lot […]

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44 Taxes We Pay as Residents of the Great City of Philadelphia

Governor Wolf introduced his budget on Tuesday. And in it he proposed an increase in spending, no pension reform, no long-term deficit reduction and no […]

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Are Women Being Overmedicated?

Psychiatrist Julie Holland wrote in the New York Times this weekend about adjudicating the female mood, which ever since the publication of the feminist classic The […]

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What Seth Williams Didn’t Say About Civil Forfeiture

There’s probably a good case to be made for the civil forfeiture system — in which authorities seize money and property they believe has been […]

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How Free do We Want Our Nipples?

My hot yoga class gets hot. As in, really hot. When I ring out my mat out after class, best-case scenario is that all of […]

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Analysis: The SRC Can’t Win

Now we know for sure: There is no good way to govern Philadelphia schools — because all attempts to do so will end in tears. […]

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Where to Send Your Kid to College If He Does Drugs

So let’s say your son is a good kid, a nice kid, smart, nailed his SATs, but he does have this troublesome … habit. He […]

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No Small Talk: Inside the Mind of a Philadelphian Abroad

I should start by saying that, by Philadelphia standards, I am perfectly nice. When in my natural habitat, out there in the wild among you […]

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week

Just when we absolutely, positively cannot stand ONE MORE MINUTE of winter, the Flower Show hits town, bringing with it warmth and light and blazons […]

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The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz for the Week Ending February 27th

The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?