This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.

Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

With its focus on lone (male) genius, the $100,000 prize has lost touch with the field’s changing landscape

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

The developments prompted Mayor Cherelle L. Parker to make one of her first public comments about Trump’s mass deportation campaign, acknowledging in a statement “the public’s fear of the unknown.”

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Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.

Relocating the statue to the top of the museum steps is part of the creeping privatization of the Art Museum grounds.

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People in the Philadelphia region are joining nationwide protests after a woman was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

While researching the Little Review archives for my book, A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls, I stumbled across an all-time banger of an opening line in Jane Heap’s review of Sherwood Anderson’s …