Politics & Policy

Thank you, Alabama Republicans, for choosing a Senate candidate whose reactionary ravings and paranoid fictions make Donald Trump look semi-sane.

Most of us recall when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, but in the American post-war narrative, many recently retired troops have become marginalized by our government.

Six weeks before New Jersey voters select a new governor, Democratic nominee Phil Murphy has released his first television ad for the general election.

Dave Davies reports critics and proponents of Philadelphia’s sweetened beverage tax are still spending millions of dollars on ads t ...

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.