Politics & Policy

Unlike so many men who were poor and black, my father didn’t go to Vietnam, and that circumstance changed what could have been — not only for my father, but also my family.

Today, the City of Philadelphia unveils a new public monument. Octavius V. Catto, a 19th-century civil rights activist who suc ...

Wouldn't it be swell if our "leaders" of all-Republican rule devoted some of their precious time to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico?

Democrat Chrissy Houlahan has gotten some early backing in her bid for a congressional seat in the western suburbs of Philadelphia.

An array of appointed and elected officials gathered Monday in Philadelphia to criticize the Graham-Cassidy bill as a disastrous replacement for the Affordable Care Act.  

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Bucks County may be an endangered species — a moderate Republican who makes a point of working with Democrats.

City and county officials in New Jersey are asking the state Legislature to maintain a limit on salary increases when arbitrators settle police and firefighters contracts.

President Donald Trump's expanded travel ban has been dismissed as "nothing more than a diversion" by Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.

Spewing anew without a clue, Trump presumed this weekend to tell us what is patriotism and what is not. Rest assured, the Founding Fathers shook their heads and took a knee.

An unlikely feud between New Jersey's top Democrat and its largest teachers union is playing out on your TV.

Guests: Alec MacGillis, Christine Todd Whitman, Juliet Eilperin We’ll get caught up on what’s been going on b ...

City and county officials in New Jersey are asking the state Legislature to maintain a limit on salary increases when arbitrators settle ...

Gov. Chris Christie has pardoned a Greenwood Lake, New York, woman who was convicted of two felonies in New Jersey. Gail Naples gr ...

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. o ...

Senate Republicans are trying to push through a last-ditch Obamacare repeal — something that will be harder to do now that Republic ...