Politics & Policy

I’ve always been a news junkie. Since moving to Delaware in 1983, I have routinely had four different newspapers tossed onto my fr ...

Regarding my posting yesterday about the tenure debate now on-going at American law schools, Scott K. asks, “And so… what do ...

What if the kid at your front door offered to rake your leaves into piles, but not to bag them? Would you hire him? Or a contracto ...

A great debate has opened up over tenure of law professors at American law schools. While this subject has been debated before, the chal ...

The United States is one of very few countries in the world to recognize as full citizens children born in the country to parents who are ...

The Philadelphia Inquirer has again been demonstrating how irreplaceable it is by publishing a disturbing series of articles on violence ...

The Pentagon is reporting ...

Don’t go, Charles, don’t go. Word is that Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey might be headed to Chicago to become ...

The 2010 census tells us our population grew from 282 million in 2000 to 309 million in 2010, a net increase of 27 million residents in a ...

This weekend, the National Constitution Center is hosting heavyweights from the worlds of politics, journalism and academe for a two- ...

Q. The US has handed the job over to NATO after about a week. Does that look like a quagmire to you? A. Yes, it still looks like ...

For the second time since the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan in 2002, the United States has taken its eye off the ball, and instead proc ...

Anyone who has read the U.S. Constitution knows that it gives to Congress alone the powers “To declare War” and “To mak ...

With the U.S. military action in Libya, the U.S. is now engaged in active combat operations on at least three fronts in the Muslim world, ...