Politics & Policy

Remember when Republicans hated budget deficits? When they railed nonstop against red ink and pined for fiscal conservatism? That was just their mantra during the Obama years.

To dismiss the Vietnam War as a total failure for the United States or a warning against any intervention may prevent us from seeing solutions to today's problems.

A nonprofit that says it promotes transparent government financial information has given Delaware an F grade for its financial health.

After nearly a decade of work, the state task force on overhauling the commonwealth's property valuation system is starting off with relatively simple legislation.

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.