Politics & Policy

Task force probing N.J. use of tax incentives to keep companies in the state focuses on application submitted by a company owned by South Jersey powerbroker George Norcross.

State Sen. Anthony Williams has the first broadcast ads in the low-budget Philly mayor’s race.

The Justice Department responded with a statement that said "Speaker Pelosi's baseless attack on the attorney general is reckless, irresponsible, and false."

In a now-deleted tweet, Friel Otten responded that “The Nazis were just doing their jobs too,” and linked a PBS article on coercion by people in power.

Who is George Norcross? And why is New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy convening a task force to look into a state program from which Norcross and his allies have reaped benefits?

Host Nancy Solomon and Gov. Phil Murphy took phone calls and social media questions in the WBGO studio in Newark, New Jersey.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Barr was risking contempt of Congress citation and that he would go ahead with his planned hearing.

Philadelphia City Commissioners chairwoman Lisa Deeley quietly surrendered her notary license last summer. It could impact her re-election bid.

We discuss Attorney General William Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday about the Mueller report and whether he mishandled it.

Pa. is getting closer to legal recreational marijuana but policymakers still face tough questions about what this potentially multi-billion-dollar industry would look like.

Although Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has a moratorium on capital punishment, the commonwealth hasn't gotten close to a ban.

We Americans don't agree about much anymore, but at minimum, there should be a consensus that science in the decades since World War II has been a boon to public health.

The name Jim Kenney didn’t inspire much emotion around Fairhill and Strawberry Mansion. People are focused on worries that never seem to change no matter who's in City Hall.

Nuclear power plants across the U.S. are running out of room to store spent fuel. Plans for a permanent disposal site are stalled, so private companies are pitching solutions.

Abrams said she will work to build Democrats' field operation for whoever challenges Perdue, but said she doesn't plan to make any primary endorsement.