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1d ago
The State of Philadelphia at 250
Fifty years from now, people will remember where they were this summer. Whether Philadelphia will remember what it did with it is a different question.
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History2d ago
Northeast Philadelphia: The City Within the City
Northeast Philadelphia is at a crossroads. Where will it go from here?
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3d ago
Philadelphia: The Tale of Two Cities
In 1842, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe met in Philadelphia — two writers who understood, better than most, what it looked like when a city contained within it the seeds of its own contradiction. Nearly two centuries later, Philadelphia still does. This is the story of a city caught between the blue-collar identity it lost and the educated, cosmopolitan one it is still deciding whether to claim.
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