Politics & Policy

While President Obama and Congress are planning to spend billions of dollars dropping bombs and missiles on Syria, the public school syst ...

A presidential commission aimed at cutting long lines at polling places and improving the voting experience held a hearing in Philadelphi ...

For decades, Philadelphia’s suburban counties have voted solidly Republican. But in the latest development confirming a long-term p ...

I grew up thinking of myself as very self-conscious, observant, reflective, and averse to conflict. I enjoyed time by myself, and preferr ...

The bicentennial of the War of 1812, fought for three years until 1815, is passing with only local commemoration in the United States, al ...

Today is Labor Day. It is the oddest of American national holidays. It honors an institution, the labor union, to which only about ...

The Flight 93 Advisory Commission, created by former President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, is disbanding. ...

The voting booth is the place where every American can step up to directly participate in democracy by casting a ballot. Except when glit ...

Today is the 50th anniversary of the historic “I have a dream” speech, and ...

What is college worth? President Obama has cranked up the volume on the age-old discussion about college costs. He proposes tying ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has banned staff of state appellate judges from collecting legal fees, apparently in response to referral ...

I … don’t … know … what … to say. I don’t know what to say about how tragic the Philadelphia s ...