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What 25 Years of Teaching Our Kids Has Taught America’s Teacher of the Year Leon Smith

After a quarter century at Haverford High, 2026’s National Teacher of the Year Leon Smith shares what he’s learned about connection, critical thinking, and helping young people see what they’re capable of.


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The Biggest Game in Town: Inside the Eagles Media-Industrial Complex

Opinion

A Center City Kid Remembers the Academy of Natural Sciences Museum

Opinion

Dear AT Frenchies, You Had Us at “Geaux Birds!”

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Bob Woodward Now Behaving Like an Aging “Mike Schmidt”

For decades, he’s been a benign paragon of neutral, tick-tocking, investigative reporting. But now, Bob Woodward has now become the most polarizing figure in Washington. […]

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Your “Fresh” Guac Isn’t as “Fresh” as You Think

For a country where the closest thing to a national dish is often served at a drive-through window, Americans sure are obsessed with what they […]

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Corbett to Meet with HHS Secretary to Discuss Obamacare Expansion

Tom Corbett, unlike his fellow northeastern Republican Chris Christie, rejected the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. (To the detriment of, like, half a million people.) […]

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God Save the Queens!

Come to our first Flower Show party.

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People Who Should Not Be Allowed to Work From Home

Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo! made big news last week when, in an internal memo, she told her employees that they must now come […]

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Wilmington Cop Arrested for Having Two Wives

Alert! There’s a bigamist among us! Police say [Wilmington Police Officer Wilbur Justice*] married his first wife in 2008, then falsely claimed that he was […]


Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Best of Philly 2026: Best Philadelphians

Brainiac scientists. The city’s most fanatical fans. A Mister Softee aficionado who stole our hearts — and more of our favorite neighbors this year

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

The 25 Most Philly Athletes of All Time

This city has had a love affair with the pitchers, running backs, goalies, and point guards who have called it home. Here, we present our definitive ranking. Let the debates begin.


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Philly Ranked 4th-Best Pizza Town in America

Travel + Leisure has ranked Philly the 4th-best pizza town in America! Pizza Brain and Nomad were cited as evidence. That’s all well and good, […]

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Man Killed by SEPTA Train at Tasker-Morris

Last night, just before 7 p.m., a man accidentally stumbled onto the tracks at the Tasker-Morris SEPTA station, at which point he was fatally struck […]

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Philadelphia Weekly Tracks Down the City’s 3 Black Republicans

“They’re here. They’re serious. They’d like to talk,” reads PW’s cover story. And one’s registered as a Democrat, another doesn’t like the state’s voter ID […]

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10 Ideas for New PA State Songs

This past week, Massachusetts state reps—apparently very bored what with all that bone-dry sequestration talk—filed a bill to make the Massachusetts “state rock song” Aerosmith’s […]

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Judge Who Acquitted Jonathan Josey Is Married to a Cop

What seemed at first like a baffling decision might now make a little more sense. Michael Nutter, Seth Williams, and just about everybody not affiliated […]

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76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World

Sure, Philly gave America democracy. But, from bubble gum to the world’s first computer to life-saving medical breakthroughs, Philadelphia’s greatest export is actually our influence.

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

Our Petition Worked — Ona Judge Day Is Now Official

We launched a petition to urge the Mayor and City Council to make May 21st a day to honor the brave former slave who escaped from George Washington — because no one tells Philadelphia to keep the truth to ourselves.


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Homophobia in Swarthmore Frats

One gay student speaks out.

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Activists Demand Nutter Delay School Closures

CBS Philly reports that activist groups are calling on Mayor Nutter to delay the planned closure of 29 Philadelphia schools at the end of the […]

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School Responds to Graham Cracker Snub

Haddonfield Child Care finally speaks, kind of.

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What The NRA Gets Wrong About Philly Crime

The NRA apparently doesn’t like the efforts of Mayor Nutter and Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey to support new laws that might restrict the flow of […]

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