Politics & Policy

After the Pennsylvania SPCA broke up the biggest dog-fighting ring in its history last week, the gruesome images of the abused animals ar ...

Only a stone-cold fool would try to cover ground where Stephen Colbert has already planted his satiric flag. So let me begin. ...

When I graduated from law school and started practicing tax law in Philadelphia back in 1975, the top rate on both federal income and est ...

The DREAM Act (acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) died on December 18, 2010, when it drew only 55 affirmativ ...

Leaders from the struggling city of Camden are praising New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for signing a law that will make it easier for pol ...

President Obama is right to defend Medicaid, Medicare for seniors, and his own health insurance reforms. If we’ve made the policy ...

President Obama seems to have finessed the fight over the budget for the last half of the 2011 fiscal year. His next battle will be tryi ...

New Jersey state senator Dawn Addiego may now have a real race on her hands.  Today in Mt. Holly, legendary Olympian Carl Lewis leap ...

I teach and study taxation for a living, so you might think I enjoy doing my taxes so much that I’m an early filer. The truth is j ...

Primary voters head to the polls in just over a month. As the campaigns heat up, the word “reform” is making an appearance right on c ...

In one moment last week, I saw both the gloomy downside and the percolating potential of Philadelphia politics. In the last month, ...

President Obama, probably in response to Republican criticism of rising gasoline prices, recently ...

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