Friday's commutation for Trump whisperer Roger Stone was the beginning of a president's end game...and 6 months that threaten America. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 3 years ago

I can't stop thinking about the beauty of Elijah McClain and the banal evil of the cops who killed him | Will Bunch

The killing of the violin-playing introvert by three Aurora, Colo., cops shows why we must end American policing as we know it. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 3 years ago

When media rely on what police say, they miss key truths about crime

The George Floyd protests have shown that police lie, constantly. It's way past time for the media to stop aiding and abetting them. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 3 years ago

The FBI searched a protester’s Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and internet history

The FBI pursuit of 33-year-old Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal peels back the curtain on the extent to which federal authorities are using news footage, online histories and social media to track down and identify demonstrators believed to be responsible for acts of violence. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 3 years ago

Camden was once known as the nation’s poorest and most dangerous city, where police brutality sparked riots in the 1960s and ’70s. But over the last seven years, the small city has drawn national attention for its policing. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 3 years ago

Can a reality-TV president create a new U.S. reality that pretends death, despair don't exist? | Will Bunch

A fraudster who played a shrewd CEO on TV is now hoping alt-reality from the Oval Office can deny tens of thousands of deaths. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

A fraudster who played a shrewd CEO on TV is now hoping alt-reality from the Oval Office can deny tens of thousands of deaths. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

In France, a nursing home takes on coronavirus and wins

As the coronavirus scythed through nursing homes, cutting a deadly path, the staff at a home in France took drastic action. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Trump, Fox News are trying to gin up a new Tea Party to distract you from their deadly failures | Will Bunch

Don't be fooled by a tiny band of protesters. Trump, Fox News and the DeVos family don't want voters to dwell on their failures. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Contamination at CDC lab delayed rollout of coronavirus tests

The failure by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to quickly produce a test kit for detecting the novel coronavirus was triggered by a glaring scientific breakdown at the CDC's central laboratory complex in Atlanta, according to scientists with knowledge of the matter … | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

For Pennsylvania’s Amish, the coronavirus and social distancing are a challenge

Lancaster County is home to more than 26,000 Amish. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

The former casino, now owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, is an immediate danger to the safety of people on the Boardwalk, city officials said. They are suing to force Icahn to tear it down. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Media, political elites who didn't see Trump in 2016 are blowing it again with Bernie Sanders | Will Bunch

Are grouchy, overpaid Boomer pundits missing the best story of the 2020s? A political revolution of the young and the marginalized for Bernie | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

A Trump-Bloomberg race would fulfill a 1980s prophecy that America will amuse itself to death, with cheap entertainment crushing civic discourse. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Bloomberg vs. Trump would mean America has already amused itself to death | Will Bunch

A Trump-Bloomberg race would fulfill a 1980s prophecy that America will amuse itself to death, with cheap entertainment crushing civic discourse. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Employers use algos to rate interviewees. New IL law gives candidates rights

Employers in industries are turning to video interviews to cut through the piles of applications they receive. In some cases, AI software is used to analyze the candidate’s facial expression, tone and language, although many of the algorithms behind the technology remain mysterio … | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Philadelphia judge rules against Uber's arbitration clause in car crash case

Because Uber can’t prove that a Philadelphia woman actually read the company’s terms and conditions, she can’t be forced to settle her claims behind closed doors, a judge ruled. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Wawa data breach for 10+ months

The malware exposed credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates, and cardholder names on payment cards used in-store and at gas pumps at potentially all locations. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

President Trump has severely disrespected his office and the document he swore to protect and uphold. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Merck cyberattack’s $1.3B question: Was it an act of war?

By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down.It was worse than it seemed. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Happiness on social media is a sword that cuts both ways

Research shows that passive social media use can bring on negative feelings. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Three Mile Island dismantling could take six decades, more than $1B

A critic says Exelon's prolonged decommissioning timeline is a "veiled extortion attempt" to induce Pennsylvania policymakers to rescue the state's nuclear industry. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

From Deadspin to picket lines, a moral workplace is 2020’s stealth issue

American workers have long feared speaking out on the job risks everything. Could a progressive victory in 2020's election change that? | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

The political forces that shaped last year’s midterm elections showed no signs of abating Tuesday, as voters turned on Republicans and establishment Democrats. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

California hits Philly-area Amazon seller with $1.6M sales-tax bill

Brian Freifelder, who sells his wares out of a small warehouse in Bensalem, has been caught in what his lawyer called “an interstate commerce speed trap.” | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

A revolution in Chile sparked by U.S.-style economics

A revolution triggered by a higher subway fare shows how the world is rising up over income inequality. Here's how it plays out in U.S. politics. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

The president's open corruption has become the political equivalent of that Fifth Avenue shooting. Only the GOP can stop autocracy. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Veterinarians are dying by suicide at high rates

As the lost lives have increased, veterinarians are rallying to save their own. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Student who came close to hacking Trump tax returns will plead guilty

The students were stymied. Someone in the Trump family had already applied for college financial aid. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Alzheimer’s Pioneer Virginia Lee Wins $3M Breakthrough Prize

In more than 30 years, Lee has made major discoveries about nearly every disease that is marked by abnormal, “misfolded” proteins in the brain. In 2006, for example, she showed that two of these diseases — frontotemporal dementia and ALS — were characterized by clumps of the same … | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Socks help solve 28-year-old cold case murder

Theodore Dill Donahue, 52, a pizza deliveryman, was long suspected in the 1991 killing of Denise Sharon Kulb, a former girlfriend. The 27-year-old mother's body was found in a wooded area of Delaware County. Donahue used the email handle Ted Bundy 1967, an apparent reference to a … | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

His mission: Meet 10k people, one at a time, for an hour at a time

In 2015, Lawless launched Robs10kFriends, an initiative to meet 10,000 different people for an hour each. So far, he’s connected with close to 3,000 strangers. He projects to spend the next 10 years plugging away at the goal and speaking about the value of human connection. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Philly Phanatic Mascot in Multi-Million Dollar Copyright Lawsuit

In a federal lawsuit, the Phillies accused Harrison/Erickson Inc. of threatening to withdraw from their 1984 agreement to let the Phillies use the mascot for “forever." | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

What is the difference between “gun violence” and “mass shootings”?

Both the shooting in Elmwood and the shooting in Gilroy are a “mass shooting” and neither should be thought of as an “everyday” occurrence. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition

Tianxu An will play the piece this week with the Philadelphia Orchestra that surprised him recently at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Philadelphia university says it’s offering ‘first MBA’ for the cannabis industry

The University of Sciences in Philadelphia announced Tuesday that it is launching a Master of Business Administration option for students looking for opportunities in the cannabis industry. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Hahnemann Hospital closure upends career paths for 570 doctors-in-training

Hahnemann’s closure is causing “the largest orphaning of medical residents in the history of the United States,” according to Drexel University. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

A recap of the Philadelphia refinery explosion

As rescuers rushed in, a control room "hero" quickly siphoned toxic hydrofluoric acid away from danger. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

How the first U.S. city with no daily newspaper will help Trump in 2020 | Will Bunch

In the 1920s, the Youngstown Vindicator snuffed out the KKK. Now that it's closing, who will counter today's extremism? | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Can Philadelphia’s homicide crisis be solved? Thomas Abt has a plan

"To reduce violence, focus on the damn violence." | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Comcast broke consumer protection law nearly 500K times, WA state judge rules

Comcast charged tens of thousands of Washington residents for its “Service Protection Plan” without their consent. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago

Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes

Inquirer.com is your source for all Philadelphia news. Check out 24-hour breaking news, sports, weather, entertainment and more. | Continue reading


@inquirer.com | 4 years ago