Politics & Policy

Back in January 2008, as Michael Nutter was taking office as mayor amid loud hosannas, a Philly native named Shirley Franklin visited tow ...

I received an invitation to speak about illegal immigration to a gathering of the Berks County Patriots and other Tea Party groups in Lee ...

Winston Churchill said in a 1947 speech that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. As though to prove his ...

The casino license for the long-stalled Foxwoods project in South Philadelphia has been revoked, and the gaming group is appealing the de ...

So where does Christine O’Donnell go now after her landslide defeat (57% to 40%) by now Senator Chris Coons in Delaware? Get ready ...

So now we know that Villanova Law School achieved its ranking of 67th out of 184 U.S. law schools only by submitting false information to ...

Welcome to NewsWorks’ newest blog, Brandywine to Broad. My name is Jan Ting and in this blog, I’ll be writing about th ...

Madison, Wisconsin, has looked like Cairo or Tunis during the protests against incumbent dictators. The difference is that WisconsinR ...

Both my parents were immigrants. Many of their friends were immigrants. And many of the children I grew up with were the children of immi ...

Let’s talk about three words beginning with the letter I:  Internet, interstates and Iowa.  They all have somet ...

A political debate between Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey on federal spending continues to heat ...

What would you get if Portland had a baby with New York? Answer: Philadelphia. I love that line. It was the tweet of the n ...