Politics & Policy

Remember when Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign broke new ground for its online voter outreach efforts? Now, the cam ...

A Commonwealth Court judge has knocked the Democratic candidate for a North Philadelphia state house seat off the ballot, paving the way ...

A coalition called “Take Action Philly” is rallying the city’s legal community to combat the Trump administration’ ...

President Trump is committed to eliminating the Waters of the U.S. Rule, which outlines federally protected ...

A onetime top aide to former Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell who pleaded guilty to pocketing thousands of dollars in supposed campaign contrib ...

Last spring, the Obama administration told school districts to allow transgender students to use the bathroom and locker room of their ch ...

We tend to look to the past for guidance and wisdom. There are cues that today's political class should take from the fourth president of the United States, James Madison.

The Trump administration has dropped federal guidelines that said transgender students should be allowed to use public school bathrooms a ...

In the cavernous basement of St. Thomas Aquinas Community Center in South Philly, a mock immigration raid is underway. From one en ...

Journalist and author John Judis explains the populist appeal of both 2016 presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump a ...

Philadelphia city leaders have a message for state legislators in Harrisburg: stop meddling in the city’s local lawmaking.  ...

Meng Li grew up outside Beijing, China. He came to the U.S. on a student visa, earned a Ph.D. in Texas, and now works as a business profe ...

There is a general consensus in the U.S. that we need to protect ourselves and not allow people who wish us harm to pass through our bord ...

What is small, brown, round, and avoided by the City of Philadelphia like the plague? If you guessed bed bugs, you’d be right. Unli ...