Politics & Policy

Amid the turmoil over how to fix the Philadelphia schools, one core point of disagreement rarely gets voiced explicitly. It revolv ...

The current controversy over eliminating Saturday mail delivery prompted me to look up something I wrote two years ago.  Here it is: ...

Our Constitution gives to the U.S. Senate the job of offering advice and consent to the president in appointments of advisers, ambassador ...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) has paid back $58,000 for two flights to the Dominican Republic on a Florida doctor’s private jet. ...

Since whispering began about Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s plans to privatize Pennsylvania’s state liquor stores, expectati ...

A majority of Pennsylvanians say they support stricter gun control regulations. A Quinnipiac University found that 95 percent of l ...

In Las Vegas this afternoon, President Obama also spoke to an audience around the country, outlining his plans to change America’s ...

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, who called earmarks the “gateway drug” to more government spending, intends to ask Congress to enact a ...

Public comment was scarce this week when the Philadelphia Board of Ethics held a hearing on proposed regulations to govern independent ex ...

Philadelphia’s public employees union is asking gun-related companies in which it has invested pension funds to do more to kee ...

It’s less than three years now before the first presidential primary elections of 2016. Anyone who wants to be a serious candidate ...

Pennsylvania has 15,000 people with intellectual disabilities on a waiting list for individualized services, including transportation and ...