Jake Blumgart

Only one Philadelphia paper covered Black Bottom. And it wasn't The Inquirer.

Historian Richard White on the greed, ineptitude and economic cost behind the transcontinental railroads, and the implications for infrastructure policy today.

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

Wild talk, elite confusion, working-class cheers — Donald Trump’s divisive presidential campaign comes straight from the master’s playbook.