Politics & Policy

The ward leader plans to campaign as a progressive Democratic alternative in the district encompassing Center City and South and Southwest Philly.

It comes nearly a year after Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed a different bag ban, which he said was not tough enough.

From the politics to the presidents' counternarratives, there are a number of similarities between the events of December 1998 and the proceedings underway now against Trump.

The 2020 DNC in Milwaukee may feel a long way away, but voters throughout Philly and its suburbs are already planning how they’ll get there next July.

By restricting where products can be sold, the law aims to prevent minors from getting addicted, but leaves room for adults who vape to quit smoking.

City Council unanimously passed an amendment to ban all single-use plastic bags, regardless of their thickness. Supporters believe the changed bill will pass next week.

Freelancers say the legislation meant to protect people from wrongly being classified as independent contractors will cost them business.

It’s a surprising move from the Kenney administration, which has said that pulling city subsidies would be a last resort in its mission to enforce the prevailing wage law.

Republicans argued Democrats aren’t respecting due process, while Democrats argued the president’s conduct is baldly unconstitutional.

The impeachment inquiry continued Wednesday as the House Judiciary Committee called four constitutional law professors to testify.

She is accused of enriching herself by stealing money from a nonprofit organization she founded to serve the mentally ill and poor who were fighting addiction.

Dannagal Goldthwaite Young argues that conservative talk radio and liberal political satire might be two halves of the same whole for their audiences.

The House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearing on Wednesday marks a new phase in the investigation, as Democrats prepare to finalize their case against President Trump.

The White House pursued a "months-long effort" involving top officials to extract concessions from Ukraine's government aimed at helping President Trump's reelection in 2020,

The law includes a carve-out that lets members of the military buy tobacco when they’re 18.