Illegal immigration

On balance, Inquirer misses the mark

After nine paragraphs of describing the increasing cooperation, in red cities and towns, the Inquirer gives the pro side one sentence and not a quote from anyone in ICE:

Bike lanes

Billy Penn gets a D for biased reporting

You had to read to the 19th paragraph to find a single line about opposition to the barriers, from the Friends of Pine and Spruce.

ICE

ICE Out: Grand Opera from City Council

It should not come as a surprise to you that lawyers on your team can find legal justification for anything.

University of Pennsylvania

Guest essay: Penn punks out of a touchy debate

“Censorship is the enemy of education, in all times and places.”

Military draft

On a bright spring day, someone feels a draft

Cocktails went on almost three hours, too enjoyable for words, and it was during that — here’s the lede — that one of them mentioned that they had “heard” Pete Hegseth was bringing back the draft.

Bike lanes

On democracy and bike lanes

Barriers would not have protected Dr. Friedes as she was killed by a drunk driver doing almost 60 m.p.h.

Inga Saffron

The Cyclops of the Inquirer is at it again

She hates cars, and by extension motorists, who she seems to view as Cro-Magnon, with no citizenship rights.

Artemis II

Artemis II: The original movie was better

What can compare to “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”?

Baby Boomers

Guest essay: Boomers went from analog to digital

They are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood. No other generation will ever cross that particular bridge again.

Reparations

Guest essay: A path to recovery from slavery

“One of my concerns with much of the reparation movement and with frameworks such as critical race theory is that they often place people into permanent categories: victim and victimizer, oppressed and oppressor.”

Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez: The making of an unperson

You might say it was like white Americans learning that George Washington, among other Founding Fathers, was a slave holder. In our present culture, that is evil.

DEAD BEAT CITY

Philly is a snail when it comes to paying its bills

90% “of the more than 12,000 outside service contracts that the city signed from fiscal 2020 through January 2025” were paid late.