Politics & Policy

Midway Beach, a small oceanfront community on the New Jersey shore, was barely impacted by Superstorm Sandy, due largely to the large san ...

How long will average Republican voters — folks making modest incomes, folks who bought Trump's 2016 snake oil — keep allowing themselves to be played for saps?

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian diplomat.

At a talk at the Academy of Music in Center City Thursday night, Hillary Clinton said "the forces at work in 2016 are still with us."

In light of high-profile sexual harassment allegations, state lawmakers seek to reform how state government handles allegations concerning legislators.

Financing for the ambitious project will depend on whether the city's new tax on sweetened beverages is upheld in court.

Nina Ahmad has finished her last day as Philadelphia Deputy Mayor for Public Engagement, clearing the way for her to challenge Brady for the Democratic nomination.

State Senator Stewart Greenleaf (R-Montgomery) confessed that he was one of the was one of those lawmakers who sponsored tough-on-crime laws in the mid-1990’s.

In the interactive slider above, the city of Reading can be seen as an appendage thinly sewn to the top of Pennsylvania’s 16th ...

The move would put Pompeo, a former congressman who has grown close to Trump during his tenure atop the CIA, in charge of U.S. diplomacy.

The field for the 2018 lieutenant governor election is filling up, with a number of Democrats jumping into the often-low-key race.

Matt Lauer will be remembered as a fallen sexual harasser, but in my mind, he's forever immortalized as a Donald Trump toady.

WHYY’s senior reporter Dave Davies interviewed Cokie Roberts about the future of American politics at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre in Philadelphia.

The $79.1 million spent on the June primary and November's general election was exceeded only by the $88.1 million 2005 race between Jon Corzine and Doug Forrester.

U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo, a Republican, is retiring after 12 terms in the House of Representatives.