Politics & Policy

A few years ago, Cara Palladino first presented her marriage license to her employer to try to add her wife to her health insurance. She ...

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell told transportation advocates in Philadelphia they need to push harder to get a multi-billion dollar ...

Our politics are being controlled by people who think there are monsters in the closet. What’s worse, no amount of tummy rubbing, or sh ...

Here’s my rough memory of one of the most pithy quotes I ever saw in a news story: “When our schools are dying for mon ...

In his new book Our Political Nature, evolutionary anthropologist Avi Tuschman explains, what he calls, the hidden roots of poli ...

A state court’s order to stop a Montgomery County court clerk from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples leaves nearly thre ...

Ah, Philadelphia. We’re fat, we’re ugly, we’re hostile and we’re …. happy? Yep, a new ...

While President Obama and Congress are planning to spend billions of dollars dropping bombs and missiles on Syria, the public school syst ...

A presidential commission aimed at cutting long lines at polling places and improving the voting experience held a hearing in Philadelphi ...

For decades, Philadelphia’s suburban counties have voted solidly Republican. But in the latest development confirming a long-term p ...

I grew up thinking of myself as very self-conscious, observant, reflective, and averse to conflict. I enjoyed time by myself, and preferr ...

The bicentennial of the War of 1812, fought for three years until 1815, is passing with only local commemoration in the United States, al ...

Today is Labor Day. It is the oddest of American national holidays. It honors an institution, the labor union, to which only about ...