Politics & Policy
Trump presidency a reminder of the futility of despair, the duty of participation
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. At 10 a.m., I rolled over in bed and groped for my smartphone to evaluate the damage. Facebook. NY Times. ...
8 years ago
Local Republicans head to inaugural with high hopes
Washington, D.C., is hosting hundreds of thousands of celebrants and protesters for inaugural festivities, including many from Penn ...
8 years ago
ListenA quick take on Philly’s inauguration events this weekend
It’s safe to assume the election has coerced some of our more partisan opinions out of the woodwork — at the dinner table, ...
8 years ago
Watch live: President Obama holds his final press conference
Watch live: President Obama holds his final press conference. ...
8 years ago
The ACA protects all of us, whether we know it or not
When people complain about premiums being higher under the Affordable Care Act, they don’t realize that they also need the new prot ...
8 years ago
What’s next after Christie’s anti-opioid mission outline
The fight against the opioid drug epidemic always has been a priority for Gov. Chris Christie, and he announced this week it would be his ...
8 years ago
Supreme Court takes up suit over 2001 detention of Muslims
Ahmer Abbasi speaks softly as he describes the strip searches, the extra shoves, the curses that he endured in a federal jail in Brooklyn ...
8 years ago
A young ex-president, Obama poised for a busy retirement
For Barack Obama, retirement is looking like anything but. He has a presidential library to build, hundreds of millions of dollars ...
8 years ago
Protesters say Trump can’t ‘bury the Statue of Liberty’
A standing-room-only crowd has packed a historic African-American church in Washington for one of dozens of rallies around the nation sup ...
8 years ago
Trump attacks Civil Rights hero Lewis as ‘all talk’ after he questions his legitimacy
Donald Trump lashed out at civil rights hero ...
8 years ago
Obamacare proponents urge residents to sign up despite repeal effort
The clock may be ticking on the Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as “Obamacare” — but proponents are still encouragi ...
8 years ago
Obama recieves pardon request for Fattah
In a joint letter sent to President Barack Obama, former Special Counsel to President Bill Clinton, Lanny Davis, Esquire, and Rev. Dr. Th ...
8 years ago
Trump infrastructure plans buoy area lawmakers worried over transit safety
Last week when more than 100 commuters were injured in a New York train crash, many lawmakers in the region immediately thought of the 20 ...
8 years ago
ListenShapiro, to be sworn in as AG next week, announces top aides
The man scheduled to be sworn in as Pennsylvania’s next attorney general next week is naming his ...
8 years ago
The Democratic Party let down voters, not the other way around
Dear DNC chair and vice chair candidates, As a recent immigrant, I couldn’t vote in the last election. I now call Philadelph ...
8 years ago