Politics & Policy

The constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s voter-identification law will get a second week of scrutiny as the trial judge hears allega ...

Next year’s race for governor is fast approaching. Polls show, and election watchers say, incumbent Tom Corbett faces steep odds in ...

Restoring the Shore is not just about flood maps, building codes and economic multipliers. It’s about my friend Ted and his ...

My family lived in Detroit from 1955 to 1956, during which time I attended second grade in a public elementary school. That was the first ...

Another chief of staff is leaving Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s Administration. Steve Aichele is on the way out just about ...

Elbridge Gerry, born today in 1744, was an American Revolutionary leader, Declaration of Independence signer, Constitutional delegat ...

Attorney General Kathleen Kane insists she is not violating her oath of office in deciding not to defend Pennsylvania’s marriage la ...

It was a night for expressing hopes, and the skepticism that undermines them. About 60 people gathered at WHYY Monday night for th ...

As all eyes were on the case of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, something else came to the nation’s attention: “ ...

Pennsylvania’s voter ID law is back in the spotlight. Sort of.   The legislation, which supporters say would pre ...

Back when Republicans controlled the U.S. Senate, minority Democrats employed and defended their use of the filibuster, blocking votes on ...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Of all the wise words attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King ...

There’s an impasse over whether Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane can or cannot refuse to defend the state’s ban on ...

The Pennsylvania state budget just signed by Gov. Tom Corbett includes a 23 percent funding increase for the state Office of Open Records ...

It may have been a little while since you heard talk about “the sequester.” One local lawmaker says it’s unfair and are ...