Opinion

What Is stop-and-frisk and how it has been used in Philadelphia? Criminologists say it can be constitutional and useful if carefully controlled.

Opinion

Philadelphia has reduced school-based arrests by 91% since 2013.

Opinion

I remember what life was like before the Affordable Care Act and I’m not going back, political strategist Antjuan Seawright writes in response to Trump's latest threat to Obamacare.

Opinion

From coups to killing unarmed civilians to alienating potential allies, Henry Kissinger's power- and transactionalist-oriented approach to foreign policy produced a series of destructive outcomes.

Opinion

Who can defend voting rights? An appeals court ruling sharply limiting lawsuits looks likely to head to the Supreme Court.

Opinion

Pastor Rhonda Thomas helped develop a digital toolkit that guides faith communities in teaching a complete retelling of Black history in their own way, in their own spaces.

Opinion

Black-led community development financial institutions can counter barriers to prosperity.

Opinion

The law keeps guns from domestic abusers.

Politics

Polls may do poorly at picking a winner, but they do better in helping pollsters, journalists and voters understand what issues matter and why they matter.

Opinion

The very thing that parental rights advocates want to exclude in 2023 is the very thing that parental rights groups of the 1960s fought to have included: an accurate depiction of Black people in tAmerican history and culture.

Health

White patients are more likely than Black patients to be given opioid medication for pain in American emergency departments.

Opinion

Given widespread voter purges, advocates are concerned that some voters may be removed from the rolls without their knowledge.