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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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 American University students Sharon Burk, left, and Molly Wagner, embrace outside the Supreme Court after Wednesday DOMA ruling.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Ruling changes landscape for pursuit of gay marriage in N.J.

Supporters of gay marriage in New Jersey see the Supreme Court’s ruling on DOMA as a huge boost for political and legal efforts to ...

13 years ago

Philadelphia could lose hub status with merged U.S. Air

A new General Accounting Office report questions whether Philadelphia International Airport will remain a hub after the merger of U.S. Ai ...

13 years ago

 Rev. Dr. Andrew L. Foster III, senior pastor at Janes Memorial United Methodist Church, said Germantown school closings are

Teachers, students and neighbors mourn the loss of Germantown’s Fulton Elementary School

Last week’s closing of Robert Fulton Elementary School left students, faculty and staff members wondering what the future may hold. ...

13 years ago

 Kim Johnson looks over the destruction near her seaside apartment in Atlantic City, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

FEMA boosts aid to N.J. towns hit by Sandy

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has OK’d a plan to boost aid to New Jersey towns hit hard by Superstorm Sandy. U.S. ...

13 years ago

Online privacy: Letting it all hang out for quite some time

This drawing was first published in 2000. In the past 13 years, we’ve aided and abetted forces, including the government, eager to ...

13 years ago

 Hollingsworth v. Perry, the California Proposition 8 case, react on steps of the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday after justices cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California. From left: Jeff Zarrillo, his partner Paul Katami, attorney David Boies, Sandy Stier and her partner Kris Perry. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
National Interest

Gay marriage rulings: A big step toward justice

You can’t say I didn’t tell you. ...

13 years ago

 (Cartoon by Rob Tornoe)

Paula Deen, voting rights and the ‘New South’

This is commentary from political blogger and cartoonist Rob Tornoe. People have changed. That se ...

13 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

School funding piece – former district CFO Mike Masch responds

Here’s another take on the roots of the Philadelphia school district funding crisis and potential solutions. On Monday I ...

13 years ago

 When the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) case in March, both sides of the issue made their opinions known across the street. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Supreme Court expected to issue historic same-sex marriage rulings today

The Supreme Court will release its decisions today in two highly-anticipated cases involving same-sex marriage. Both are challenge ...

13 years ago

 Image from YouTube video titled XTU Anniversary Concert Fight Footage. Posted online by Console & Hollawell.

Limits placed on tailgate parties for XTU Anniversary Concert in Camden

Memories of drunken concert-goers making a mess of Camden’s Waterfront remain fresh in the minds of some residents as they brace fo ...

13 years ago

Spraygrounds, like this one at Shissler Rec Center, is among the free things you can do with the kids this summer. (Photo courtesy of PlanPhilly)
Philly Parenting

50 free things to do with kids in Philadelphia: 2013

Check out an updated versio ...

13 years ago

 A woman participates in an exercise class at the Roxborough YMCA. (Kayla Cook and Sean Smith of Philadelphia Neighborhoods)

Roxborough YMCA helps locals tackle obesity, diabetes and heart disease

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter recently joined 17 other mayors in asking congress to consider restricting the purchase of sugary drink ...

13 years ago

 Governor Corbett is calling President Obama's climate change proposal a

Corbett calls Obama’s climate change proposal a war on coal and jobs

Governor Tom Corbett reacted to President Obama’s climate change proposal Tuesday, calling the initiative a “war on coal̶ ...

13 years ago

FY 2014 budget clears Delaware House without debate

The state of Delaware is one step closer to finalizing a budget.  The FY 2014 state operating budget cleared the House without ...

13 years ago

Transportation funding strategy still stalled in Pa.

State House lawmakers are struggling to settle on a funding plan for fixing Pennsylvania’s roads, bridges, and mass transit that ca ...

13 years ago

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