Politics & Policy

The Pentagon is reporting ...

Don’t go, Charles, don’t go. Word is that Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey might be headed to Chicago to become ...

The 2010 census tells us our population grew from 282 million in 2000 to 309 million in 2010, a net increase of 27 million residents in a ...

This weekend, the National Constitution Center is hosting heavyweights from the worlds of politics, journalism and academe for a two- ...

Q. The US has handed the job over to NATO after about a week. Does that look like a quagmire to you? A. Yes, it still looks like ...

For the second time since the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan in 2002, the United States has taken its eye off the ball, and instead proc ...

Anyone who has read the U.S. Constitution knows that it gives to Congress alone the powers “To declare War” and “To mak ...

With the U.S. military action in Libya, the U.S. is now engaged in active combat operations on at least three fronts in the Muslim world, ...

It’s that time of year again. As always, I’ve been procrastinating about doing my tax returns. I hate having to keep track o ...

First in a monthly series of essays on key phrases from Philadelphia’s history, being writt ...

I taught at Temple University’s campus in Tokyo, Japan, in the spring of 2005. Like all of my colleagues who have done the same, I ...

Despite the controversy over illegal immigration in Arizona triggered by U.S. failure to enforce our southern border, the federal governm ...

Update, Monday, March 14:  Reports coming out over the weekend and today indicate that conservative activist James ...

I heard this story on NPR, which all by itself is a reason to keep funding NPR. NPR got the story from the New York Times. EveryoneR ...

I’ve been considering whether to attend my college reunion later this year, which got me thinking about what I might still have in ...