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Rotimi Adeoye is a Philadelphia-based writer and columnist at The Daily Beast covering history, voting, and constitutional law. Formerly a speechwriter and Capitol Hill aide, he appears on MSNBC and writes for major publications.
State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta last week introduced a simple bill: allowing every Pennsylvania candidate and office-holder to spend campaign dollars on personal security. The timing was chillingly precise.
Something is breaking. You can feel it in the quiet moments after the news hits.
Philadelphia stands at a crossroads. Mayor Cherelle Parker’s newly unveiled housing initiative—called H.O.M.E.—is her boldest effort yet to address the city’s affordability crisis.
On Memorial Day, Fairmount Park should have been a quiet refuge. Instead, it became a crime scene.
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” touted benefits for first-time homebuyers, but critics question its impact on working-class and Black families.
On Tuesday night, Larry Krasner won the Democratic primary for Philadelphia district attorney, all but guaranteeing a third term in office. It wasn’t close.
On May 20th, Philadelphia voters will head to the polls to decide who sits on the city’s Court of Common Pleas and Municipal Court—two judicial bodies that collectively determine what justice, crime, and public safety, looks like in everyday life.
The trains still come, mostly. But fewer riders are on them. SEPTA, the public transit agency that carries Philadelphia’s working class, students, and seniors, is heading toward a fiscal cliff.
On May 13, 1985, the city of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on its own citizens. Eleven people, five of them children, died in that fire. Sixty-one homes burned to the ground. The target was MOVE, a radical Black liberation group.
Something consequential is happening in Philadelphia. SEPTA, the region’s public transit system, is facing a financial crisis so severe that it’s planning to eliminate nearly half of its service
Donald Trump has never been subtle about where he stands on history.
Donald Trump is betting big on tariffs.
If a story is told but no one listens, does it matter that it was told at all?
The Trump administration, through Elon Musk’s newly minted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is aggressively pushing to sell off key federal buildings in Philadelphia, promising efficiency and modern governance.
Philadelphia stands at a precarious intersection, balancing aspirations of renewal against the harsh reality of diminishing federal support.