Politics & Policy

My dictionary defines a “shibboleth” as a “saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by ...

There is no end to the arguments over the voting process last November. A total of 27,355 provisional ballots were cast in Philade ...

The movie Zero Dark Thirty is a taut, disciplined, compelling piece of filmmaking. It also distressed me morally as much as ...

The lingering battle over drawing new legislative districts in Pennsylvania was in federal court Friday, as a Latino group urged U.S. Dis ...

Having lofted Chuck Hagel’s trial balloon for Secretary of Defense, and having taken political fire for it, President Obama needs t ...

While it’s unclear how Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s lawsuit against the NCAA will fare in court, analysts also differ over ...

As the country was ringing in the New Year, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to steer clear of the so-called “fiscal cliff.” ...

The U.S. House has passed the Senate’s proposal to prevent the country from careening off the so-called “fiscal cliff.” ...

Freedoms do not come free. Rights, when exercised, can lead to a lot of wrong behavior. The Bill of Rights might as well be called the Bi ...

My wife and I, suburban empty-nesters, have been discussing a move to a Center City condo. “Listen, buster,” she said ...

The conversation about gun control keeps shifting in the wake of the mass shootings in a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.     ...

Gun-control advocates say the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, illustrates the urgency of better gun control, but little will change unle ...

Two weeks from the fiscal cliff, the art of getting to yes seems to be dead on Capitol Hill. How did compromise get to be such a d ...

On November 6, Republican House Speaker John Boehner noted that while the American people re-elected President Obama and a Democratic maj ...