Politics & Policy

In an earlier post, I told you about a series of community forum ...

This post is updated now with the full list of forums.  For the last year, a horde of Jersey Shore property owners ...

As a law student in the 1970’s, I studied tax law under Stanley Surrey, a former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy under President ...

While it’s unclear whether the Pennsylvania legislature will vote to do away with the state store system, the contending forces in ...

This week, the Supreme Court will issue its decision in a high-profile case challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Also called ...

One of the nation’s leading political analysts has changed his rating of next year’s Pennsylvania governor’s race  ...

The 12th Amendment, which combines a party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates onto one ticket, turned 209 this weeken ...

Since its earliest days, the United States of America has been a great experiment testing whether a free people are capable of governing ...

Young immigrants in New Jersey are pushing the state Legislature to take up a version of the federal Dream Act by the end of the month. ...

The Supreme Court issued two decisions today that will effect voter identification at elections and the prices of generic drugs. ...

“You have zero privacy. Get over it.” That’s not me talking. That was Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun Micr ...

In Washington, senators are debating an overhaul of the American immigration system. In Philadelphia, supporters of comprehensive ...

Paul Krugman is a Nobel-prize winning economist and a prolific writer, both on economic theory and as a public intellectual. Through his ...