Politics & Policy

The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 on this day ...

Here’s a fact that many NewsWorks readers know, but some do not: NewsWorks.org is part of WHYY, the Philadelphia region̵ ...

For Civil War geeks, this week is like the Super Bowl. I know, because I’m a card-carrying member of that clan. Today ...

After invoking cloture, the U.S. Senate on May 25, 2006, adopted the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 by a vote of ...

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision striking down a key provision of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is widely hailed by advocates ...

What did they die for, these young men in blue? And why should it matter now, 150 years later?&n ...

Despite the overturn of the Defense of Marriage Act provision barring same-sex married couples from federal benefits, each state will sti ...

Following today’s Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, we turned to Angela Giampolo, gay rights lawyer and chair of ...

It was foreseeable when Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong and Moscow that all the secrets he was carrying on his four laptops would fall i ...

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 ...