Politics & Policy

I just got back from a long weekend in Las Vegas, which accounts for a gap in my blog. Despite being hard hit by the recession, the Las ...

I’ve always thought that a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, made sense. In fact, back when I worked for the old Immigrati ...

The bitter labor fight in Wisconsin is like the fight over legalized abortion in that both sides think they benefit from keeping the figh ...

Political rhetoric inside the Beltway is so predictably fatuous these days, it’s easy to treat it like Muzak.   Try to ignore ...

It’s in nobody’s political interest to focus on what’s happening in Afghanistan, and it sure seems like nobody’s ...

This year marks the sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War. The 150th anniversary of the prelude to that war, the secession of S ...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania introduced a bill Thursday to help more low-income children learn and develop. The “Supporting St ...

When politicians decide to seek a new elected office, the first step is often to quietly pass the word of one’s interest in a posit ...

The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton in 1996. Among other provisions, it s ...

What will be the impact of rising gasoline and food prices predicted for later this year? How will those increased costs affect the econ ...

In my class on Partnership Taxation we were discussing the fact that hedge fund managers are taxed on their multi-million or billion doll ...

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