Thom Nickels

Several years ago, I learned that one of the legends of 20th-Century America visited my architect grandfather sometime in 1936 or '37. The occasion was the negotiation of land rights for the proposed building of Nazareth Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is on track to become the second most far left city (after New York) on the East Coast. The tell-tale sign for me was the Democratic primary in May 2026, which wiped out much of the old centrist-Union Democrat guard in the city's Riverwards neighborhood. This far left takeover has been building for a long time.

The name Dilworth Park isn't used much anymore to describe the open public space at City Hall facing West Market Street. While the name may exist on paper, many city residents refer to the area as City Hall Plaza, a space that becomes a sprinkler “fountain” area in summer and an ice-skating rink in the winter.

Skip to content In the 1950s and 1960s, To Tell the Truth was one of the most popular shows on television.

Victims of strangulation experience an inability to speak, a loss of voice, swallowing, neck pain, nausea, drooling, and hyperventilation. This is when the hyoid, the U-shaped bone of the neck, becomes fractured. The victim eventually loses consciousness and dies.

Shapiro’s Muslim outreach raises disturbing questions.

Traditionally, a religious leader should stand outside the orbit of worldly spheres. He should represent a set of values apart from Hollywood, the talking points of the DNC, and the philosophical swagger of New York icons like Patti Smith,

Something is rotten in Rome.

America has a new hero in the fight against radical feminism: the lone male juror who would not capitulate to the myth that Lindsay Clancy was not responsible for murdering her three children.

Ten years ago, in Paris for the first time, I left my hotel for a walk along the Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe.