Politics & Policy

Let them eat smoke. Let them frolic before mirrors. That’s the message Harrisburg sent the schoolchildren of Philadelphia la ...

Everyone knows that the fiscal and economic crisis in big cities like Philadelphia, in states like Pennsylvania, and throughout the Unite ...

While the Fourth of July parade processed nearby, opponents of the federal government’s surveillance of Americans’ Internet a ...

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 ...