Politics & Policy

Members of a U.S. House panel say they’re frustrated with decades of security and safety lapses at the sites that make up the natio ...

Ten women at a Pennsylvania detention center for undocumented immigrants are staging a work stoppage to protest what they say are inhuman ...

The federal government would be unable to block state laws permitting the use of medical marijuana under legislation that has been approv ...

Hillary Clinton will hold her first fundraiser in New Jersey since launching her campaign for the Democratic nomination for president lat ...

One activity America’s lawmakers really seem to enjoy is inflicting high-stakes testing on America’s schoolchildren. W ...

A measure just introduced in the state Senate hits nearly every point in the platform championed by local pension reform advocates. ...

A new nonpartisan website has its sights set on taking down a veteran Philadelphia lawmaker – at the polls. U.S. Rep. Chaka Fatt ...

One day a short while ago, my wife and I were watching a network TV drama, the Good Wife perhaps. A commercial came on. “C ...

So, Jim Kenney it is. To observe the niceties, I’ll duly note that Philadelphia will not officially elect its new mayor unti ...

Gov. Chris Christie says the U.S. Senate’s failure to extend the Patriot Act could have dangerous consequences. The Senate f ...

Philadelphia City Council will have a visitor each week for the rest of the year.  Derek Green won in the Democratic primary ...