Politics & Policy

By now, you might well be weary of 9/11 reminiscence. But it’s a hard topic to avoid on this day. My job on that day was no ...

This week I participated in a panel produced by the Foreign Policy Research Institute to try to answer questions about 9/11 from high sch ...

A U.S. District Court judge’s decision to overturn the conviction of a former Philadelphia tax assessor who accepted $20,000 in cas ...

I’ve always thought it a fluke that the United States has no official language. Why didn’t the founding fathers specify an o ...

The way Philadelphia’s Council district map is drawn has real and lasting consequences for how and whether democracy works in the c ...

As someone with an uncommon name myself, I’ve always paid attention when I hear a new name. Often I’ll wonder, how do you sp ...

As fundraising for the 2012 presidential race heats up, one of the region’s leading political fundraisers says he concerned about t ...

The Philadelphia City Council plans to approve its new election map soon after Labor Day, with scant ...

How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term respond to unprecedented unemployment in the Great Depression? He threw everyt ...

Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. senator says he will be paying close attention to President Barack Obama’s speech next week on ...

Former Pennsylvania State House Speaker John Perzel is expected to plead guilty to corruption charges tomorrow, nearly two years after he ...

According to Framingham, Massachusetts police, President ObamaR ...