Politics & Policy

It has been a stressful, tragic couple of weeks for national breaking news. So a lot of us, me included, have spent an unusual amo ...

Philadelphia City Council has passed a bill aimed at ensuring equal treatment and expanding health coverage for lesbian, gay, bisexual an ...

A group lobbying for a swift end to the Pennsylvania liquor store system has ...

Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden joined state lawmakers to unveil legislation that is designed to keep guns away from the dangerously ...

The Senate’s Gang of 8 has released the full text of a proposal to overhaul the nation’s immigration system. The bill ...

I’ve been a holdout, declining to join the progressive movement to abolish the death penalty everywhere in the United States and th ...

Though more that 90 percent of Americans support requiring background checks for all gun buyers, it was not enough to convince U.S. legis ...

Another casualty of the federal sequester. To meet a mandated budget cut of five percent, the National Parks Service will close tw ...

Some parents have begun pulling their kids out of statewide standardized testing. They say its stresses out their kids, for no good reaso ...

Thousands of people from around the country rallied in Washington, D.C., for immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for t ...

Rutgers men’s basketball head coach Mike Rice was fired on April 3, after video of his physical and homophobic verbal abuse of his ...

Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, a conservative Republican, may turn out to be a key supporter of background checks for gun purchases. ...