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 Pennsylvania State Representative John Taylor will not seek re-election. (Image from John Taylor's YouTube video Fighting Squatters in our Neighborhoods)

Philly’s Taylor won’t seek re-election to Pa. Legislature

Veteran Philadelphia Republican state Rep. John Taylor has decided not to seek re-election next year. When he finishes his current ...

9 years ago

 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)

On ‘Radio Times’: Trump’s DACA repeal creates problems for GOP-led congress

Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke today about the Trump administration’s rationale for ending the Obama-era program called Deferred ...

9 years ago

U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur,
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Immigration

Area U.S. lawmakers hit moderate notes on DACA

Area lawmakers in Congress say the children of immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, s ...

9 years ago

Anel Medina, a registered nurse who graduated from Delaware County Community College, joins a rally in support of DACA.
Immigration

‘Dreamers’ react in anger, fear, but not surprise over Trump ending DACA

Anel Medina was five when her mother illegally brought her to Chester County from Mexico. On Tuesday, the 26-year-old registered n ...

9 years ago

 FILE- In this Aug. 15, 2017, file photo, a woman holds up a signs in support of the Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, during an immigration reform rally at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
National Interest

Trump, Dreamers, and The Royal Scam

Six years ago, when Trump was a blowhard who ran beauty contests, he surfaced on Fox News and talked about the undocumented immigrants wh ...

9 years ago

 (AP file photo)
Immigration
Law

Trump to Congress: ‘Get ready to do your job’ on immigration

President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday it’s up to Congress to ultimately decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigr ...

9 years ago

 (AP file photo)

Trump to Congress: ‘Get ready to do your job’ on immigration

President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday it’s up to Congress to ultimately decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigr ...

9 years ago

Trump, Pence, and Ryan
Radio Times
International
Military

The North Korea conflict; Congress returns to Washington

Guests: Joe Cirincione, Reid Wilson, Rosie Gray North Korea tested a nuclear bomb on Sunday. Secretary of Defense ...

Air Date: September 5, 2017

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the Tet Offensive
Radio Times
International
Military

Mark Bowden on “Hue 1968” and North Korea

Guest: Mark Bowden Historians often point to the battle of Huế, part of the Tet Offensive, as the turning point ...

Air Date: September 4, 2017

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 Members of the KKK are escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally Saturday, July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. A month later, as white supremacists protested the proposed removal of a Confederate monument, counter-protester Heather Heyer was killed when James Alex Fields drove a speeding car into the crowd. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

We are the land of the free, but at what price?

Is our ability to tolerate Nazism in the United States vis à vis our First Amendment protections really something for ...

9 years ago

 Gabriela Pedroza and her daughter (Photo provided)
Immigration
Mental Health

Shielding immigrant mothers from deportation benefits their children’s mental health

A new study in the journal Science shows that the debate over unauthorized immigrants is not just an political issue; it’s ...

9 years ago

The dome of the state Capitol in Trenton, New Jersey
New Jersey

Christie says fighting opioid addiction will be primary focus in his final months

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie leaves office in January and said the opioid crisis will be his primary focus until then. He sa ...

9 years ago

A car sits in floodwater from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
National Interest
Infrastructure
National

Harvey blows away Trump’s border wall

Once upon a distant time — actually, it was only last week — a demagogue stood on a Phoenix stage and titillated his acoloytes by dec ...

9 years ago

(Photo by Shutterstock)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania

A look ahead at Pennsylvania’s 2018 political races

Statewide political party leaders are starting to hone their messaging for — and against — candidates, more than a year before the mi ...

9 years ago

Pennsylvania

Video of U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s town hall in Bethlehem

Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey met with voters in a town hall in Thursday evening. Toomey took questions fro ...

9 years ago

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