## The School District of Philadelphia: A Global Spotlight on a Local Struggle The School District of Philadelphia has suddenly found itself thrust into the global spotlight, a position usually reserved for celebrities with too much free time on Twitter or politicians with a penchant for drama. But why is this urban educational powerhouse making…
# Philly’s Moment: Why the City of Brotherly Love is Trending Globally Alright, listen up, internet denizens! There’s a new kid on the global trending block, and it’s not a TikTok dance or a meme about a grumpy cat. No, this time, it’s a city—Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, and it’s having a major…
Jet-stream Jitters: Why Philadelphia’s Weather Now Matters to Mongolian Herders, Dutch Traders, and Your Aunt in Brisbane by Ignacio “Nacho” Calderón, International Desk, Dave’s Locker Philadelphia, that cradle of American belligerence and cheesesteak diplomacy, has once again discovered it possesses weather. Not merely the dull background radiation of drizzle or the occasional photogenic snow-globe flurry,…
Temple University: A Rust Belt Campus Where the World Comes to Watch America Argue With Itself By Dave’s International Affairs Desk, with a reporter who’s slept in every major airport from Changi to Schiphol and still prefers 30th Street Station’s broken coffee machines. If you stand on the North Philadelphia corner of Broad and Montgomery…
Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia—home of the Phillies—has, improbably, become the planet’s most honest geopolitical forum. While the United Nations keeps its microphones politely muted and Davos serves canapés to the same 200 people, 44,000 Philadelphians gather 81 times a year to scream unprintable truths about the human condition at nine men in red pinstripes. The…
Philadelphia’s Weather Forecast: A Micro-Tragedy With Global Ticket Sales by R. S. Vane, International Desk Philadelphia woke up this morning to a sky the color of last week’s coffee grounds and a forecast that could generously be called “schizophrenic.” By noon the temperature had already performed three costume changes, hailstones auditioned for a Broadway revival…
