Hot takes are "deliberately provocative commentary" based on "shallow moralizing," per the late political writer Simon Maloy. They're not think pieces — they're "did you think" pieces.

The first time Ed Rendell — district attorney, mayor, governor, lover of thinly sliced deli meats draped atop a fresh seeded roll — graced the pages of Best of Philly, it was for something he ...

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak was declared the winner over incumbent Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania's Democratic U.S. Senate primary Tuesday night. Governor Rendell Edward Gene "Ed" Rendell (born January 5 ...