The Philadelphia Inquirer

Had it not been for a fundraiser, the former Pennsylvania governor says he would have boarded the chartered plane that killed seven in a crash Saturday, including his friend Lewis Katz.

A new documentary chronicles the long, slow death of the American newspaper. It all begins with a testicle.

The day’s essential reads for independents and centrists.

For the first time since 1977, no fiction piece was awarded a prize, even though David Foster Wallace's The Pale King was nominated by the three-member jury as a finalist, as were Denis Johnson's Train Dreams and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! The board, which consists of 18 voting members and has the final say, couldn’t reach a majority vote. The Huffington Post and Politico were among the first-time winners.

Buzz Bissinger on Philadelphia columnist Bill Conlin and the painful environment spawned by Penn State.

Kia Grasty makes $140,000 cleaning up after Penn’s messiest students—and after her tales (and photos) of clogged toilets and feces-laden bathtubs, few would begrudge her it.