Philadelphia
The Political Scene
Cherelle Parker Defies the Progressive Agenda
Philadelphia’s new mayor insists that the city’s safety depends on expanding its police department.
Afterword
The Tap-Dancing TV Chef
LaDeva Davis was a major presence on Philadelphia’s dance scene—and dancing was just one of her talents.
Afterword
The Man Who Drove a Badillac
Even as a young man in West Philadelphia, Gilbert Hilton had a gift for getting noticed.
U.S. Journal
How Do You Get Dental Care When You Can’t Afford It?
At an annual dental fair in Philadelphia, Americans wait in line and hope to get through the door.
Cultural Comment
The Fascinating Experiment Captured in “Philly D.A.”
Could a longtime defense attorney reform the criminal-justice system as an insider?
American Chronicles
The Death of Hahnemann Hospital
When a private-equity firm bought a Philadelphia institution, the most vulnerable patients bore the cost.
Essay
Saying Her Name
Remains that were found to be those of a Black teen who was killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 were treated as an anthropological specimen. How was her identity known and then forgotten?
Philadelphia Postcard
A Philadelphia Local Is Unamused by the Fuss
Biden supporters blast music, Trump supporters wave signs that read “Stop the Cheat,” and the people of Philly have had enough.
Campaign Chronicles
Pennsylvania’s Blue Shift
Trump led in Pennsylvania on Election Night, but in the days that followed Democrats tipped the state toward Biden. A local activist said, “You should have known, Don, not to mess with Philadelphia.”
Culture Desk
The New Monuments That America Needs
Every statue defends an idea about history, but what if those ideas are wrong?
Cultural Comment
Careful How You Hate on Philadelphia
How we think about a failure to social-distance in the 1918 pandemic affects how we deal with it today.
On Religion
An Imam Leads His Congregation Through the Pandemic
In most states, religious institutions are exempt from shutdowns, and leaders have struggled with whether to close their doors.
Dept. of Design
The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei
The modernist architect, who died this month, designed buildings that are essential to the fabric of our cities, though we may not always recognize how his work is woven into them.
On Religion
God, Guns, and Country: The Evangelical Fight Over Firearms
Shane Claiborne is part of a wave of millennial evangelicals who are distancing themselves from American conservatism, especially when it comes to gun culture.
Dispatch
In the Suburbs of Philadelphia, a Swing Voter Swings
Valerie Ross is exactly the kind of voter—a white, middle-class suburban mom, who now has qualms about her vote for Trump—whom the Democrats are relying on in order to help them retake the House.
Annals of Justice
Larry Krasner’s Campaign to End Mass Incarceration
Philadelphia’s District Attorney reinvents the role of the modern prosecutor.
Culture Desk
How the Left Won the War for Gritty, the New Mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers
With his gleeful, dumb stare, Gritty is like some overgrown, empty humanoid vessel, waiting to be instilled with knowledge of this world.
Page-Turner
The Other Side of “Broken Windows”
What if vacant property received the attention that, for decades, has been showered on petty crime?
