Politics & Policy

On a January day seven years ago, a long line of hopeful people encircled Philadelphia’s City Hall to salute a new mayor.  Sev ...

News organizations are asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling last month that denied public access to records detai ...

And then there were three. Signaling that she wouldn’t garner the resources to fund a competitive campaign, Terry Gillen has ...

China is America’s primary challenger in many fields, including economic growth, science and technology, and political theory. Some wou ...

The 113th Congress was so unmemorable, it will likely be confined to a footnote in history books: it’s the second least produc ...

Uh-oh, Neil deGrasse Tyson has been making mischief on Twitter. Driven by God knows what compulsion, America’s most famous a ...

I’m sitting here staring at my keyboard, trying to find words that somehow keep up with the pace of awful news from the streets of ...

Who knows if we’ll ever get to see the movie?  But I’ve been thinking the movie poster is kind of cool!  (Hope this ...

Millionaire Tom Knox may be endorsing Democratic state Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams for Philadelphia mayor next year, but that doesn’ ...

Though Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett leaves office in just five weeks, he’s not giving up on his alternative to expanding Medicaid ...

Two Philadelphia millennials are running as Democrats for at-large City Council seats. Isaiah Thomas, a 30-year-old adjunct profes ...

Have you been getting your weekly dose of Serial, the addictive true-crime podcast fr ...

Testimony of Jan C. Ting Professor of Law, T ...