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ACLU Sues Philly Police Over Video Arrests

You have the right to take pictures and video of Philadelphia police officers as they do their job—provided, of course, you don’t end up interfering […]

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No One is Coming to Save Philadelphia Newspapers

Well, now we know: There will be no white knight to save Philadelphia’s two major daily newspapers. That was always the hope of course, that […]

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Pennsylvania Named Wrong Dads on 500 Birth Certificates

Oops! The transition to new technology in the state’s Division of Vital Records resulted in the botching of 500 new Pennsylvania birth certificates—each with the […]

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Aaron Swartz Is the Kurt Cobain of His Generation

Before this week, you may not have known who Aaron Swartz was. You may not know who he is now. But if you’ve found yourself […]

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VIDEO: Tina Fey Thinks Twitter Sucks

Normally, Upper Darby homegirl Tina Fey can do no wrong. But her video-blog rant against Twitter, while funny, is … wrong. Yes, there are a […]

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Drexel Vending Machine Lends Out MacBooks

Now there’s a new reason to be jealous of the kids at Drexel University: While the vending machines in your office probably dispense Cokes and […]

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Women Have an Obligation to Keep Their Legs Shaved

Let me know if you’ve ever heard a lament that sounds like this one: “I’m a nice guy. I really am. I’m nice to women […]

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When Will Middle-Aged People Stop Telling Millennials the Internet Is the Devil?

In the latest installment of the Atlantic‘s series on our doomed generation (see August’s “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” and May’s “Is Facebook […]

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Andrew Sullivan’s Paywall and the End of Free Knowledge

When I was a young man growing up in central Kansas, shortly before the dawn of the Internet, our town saw the New York Times […]

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One Way or Another, Google+ Is Gonna Get You

Gmail user? You’re a Google+ member. YouTube video producer? You’re a Google+ member. Reader of Zagat restaurant reviews online? You’re a Google+ member. It doesn’t […]

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Project Blitzkrieg Might Ruin 2013 for You

Those wily Russian hackers are at it again, this time coming after our hard-earned American dollars in the form of a massive scam that could […]

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You Aren’t Watching TV if You’re Watching TV Without Twitter

I probably don’t have to tell you that President Obama’s post-victory tweet was the most retweeted message of 2012, because you may have been one […]

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Don’t Blame Twitter for Bad Reporting About Sandy Hook

Earlier this month, Philadelphia magazine hosted Thinkfest, a cool event where lots of forward-thinking locals got to wax poetic on all the awesome stuff they […]

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7 Predictions About the Twitter vs. Facebook War

Not that we needed more proof of the animosity social media juggernauts Facebook and Twitter harbor for each other, but it’s reaching a boiling point […]

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Millennials: 23 Years Old. Depressed. Hooked on Cat Videos.

It used to be that when people were down and out, they’d hit a smoky bar for a while, and drown their sorrows in a […]