Roberto Thornton on the need for Philadelphia to be welcoming of all.

The City Controller talks about the game you can’t beat her at and the importance of leadership in a crisis.

The Philly firm will put the power of its 250-person litigation team to work for racial justice … for free

We can’t say we’re all that disappointed by the news. Plus: Parents don’t want to send their kids back to Philly public schools, and why a convicted Abscam politician has caught the attention of the feds yet again.

Competing sets of facts, allegations of survey fraud, and testimony from no fewer than two disgraced Philly politicians.

Plus: The cops fired for racist Facebook posts can’t even file a lawsuit protesting their termination without being racist.

Plus: Attorney General Josh Shapiro has threats of his own for the federal government, and Citizens Bank Park is opening back up to the public … for concerts.

Several former and current employees at Fox 29 allege that the station’s newsroom is run by “toxic, super-white, and Trump-apologizing management.”

The not-so-slow lurch of authoritarianism gets one step closer to Philly. Plus: Fauci’s coronavirus pessimism and signs that another Hollywood A-list movie is on its way to shoot in Philly.

Not that the caliber of competition is very high. Plus: how to cool down during the first high heat emergency of the summer, and a behind-the-scenes peek into Sixers forward Matisse Thybulle’s life in the NBA bubble.

Protesters have forced Mayor Jim Kenney to change his mind and behavior on a number of different subjects. That’s a good thing.

Plus: The city postpones plans to force out the “protest camp” that’s been on the Ben Franklin Parkway since June.

Whether they’re helping patients who are sick or homing in on a vaccine, let’s hear it for the scientists.

They already put themselves on the line. Then came a catastrophe.

They’ve marched in Center City and South Philly, on 52nd Street and in Fishtown. And they’re changing the world.