Politics & Policy

The Supreme Court is opening for business in the midst of a partial government shutdown. The justices take the bench Monday for th ...

Friday night I got to share a stage with two of the greats in the history of cartooning. One was Jules Feiffer, whose strip in the ...

From the conviction of former State Sen. Vince Fumo to Harris ...

Congratulations to Jami Wintz McKeon on her appointment as the first female chair of the venerable Philadelphia law firm Morgan Lewis &am ...

With the federal government now partially shut down for the first time in 17 years, “non-essential” government agencies and s ...

Tourists from around the world were turned away Tuesday from the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall and other historic sites in Philadelphia ...

A large swath of the U.S. government will shut down Tuesday unless Congress agrees to a last-minute budget plan. Hours before a midnight ...

Last week, I got to spend some time with Philadelphia Rising. After all the news about Philly failing – the agony of the schools ...

A few years ago, Cara Palladino first presented her marriage license to her employer to try to add her wife to her health insurance. She ...

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell told transportation advocates in Philadelphia they need to push harder to get a multi-billion dollar ...

Our politics are being controlled by people who think there are monsters in the closet. What’s worse, no amount of tummy rubbing, or sh ...

Here’s my rough memory of one of the most pithy quotes I ever saw in a news story: “When our schools are dying for mon ...

In his new book Our Political Nature, evolutionary anthropologist Avi Tuschman explains, what he calls, the hidden roots of poli ...

A state court’s order to stop a Montgomery County court clerk from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples leaves nearly thre ...