Politics & Policy

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 ...

Ahmer Abbasi speaks softly as he describes the strip searches, the extra shoves, the curses that he endured in a federal jail in Brooklyn ...

For Barack Obama, retirement is looking like anything but. He has a presidential library to build, hundreds of millions of dollars ...

A standing-room-only crowd has packed a historic African-American church in Washington for one of dozens of rallies around the nation sup ...

Donald Trump lashed out at civil rights hero ...

The clock may be ticking on the Affordable Care Act — otherwise known as “Obamacare” — but proponents are still encouragi ...

In a joint letter sent to President Barack Obama, former Special Counsel to President Bill Clinton, Lanny Davis, Esquire, and Rev. Dr. Th ...

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 ...

The man scheduled to be sworn in as Pennsylvania’s next attorney general next week is naming his ...

Dear DNC chair and vice chair candidates, As a recent immigrant, I couldn’t vote in the last election. I now call Philadelph ...

Few presidents have been as concerned with their legacy as Barack Obama. From writing his first memoir at age 34, to declaring ...

How do we respond powerfully, with courage, and moral imagination in the wake of our new administration? 

A Democratic senator is pushing FBI Director James Comey to disclose whether it is investigating any relationships Russia might have had ...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New  Jersey broke with congressional tradition Wednesday and testified against a fellow senator being consi ...