Politics & Policy

Kurds, an ethnic group living in parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, have long played a unique role in the long-standing conflicts in ...

Guests: Trudy Rubin, Brendan O’Leary The turmoil in the Middle East is  multi-faceted, with shifting, and some ...

In the past, reaching an elected official took some formality or a press credential. Today, all it takes is a well-crafted twee ...

Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania says he’d support changing Senate rules to bypass Democratic opposition and confirm ...

If you’ve tuned in to the debate over the Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination, you may be surprised by how many times another per ...

District Attorney Seth Williams, former state treasurer Rob McCord, and former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane have all been ...

Jack O’Neill seemed to drop into the Philadelphia district attorneys race from nowhere. The 35-year-old attorney walked into City H ...

The top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee is butting heads with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In opening ...

There were no pitchforks or torches when I attended a public forum earlier this month at Chestnut Hill United Church about how Pennsylvan ...

A U.S.-led coalition conducted an airstrike on Western Mosul earlier this month, signaling a potential shift in the Trump administration& ...

Guests: Robinson Meyer, Alec Luhn, Rukmini Callimachi  We have three stories for today’s edit ...

In a field of seven Democrats for Philadelphia district attorney, Tariq El-Shabazz stands out in a number of ways. He’s the ...

In November, Republicans added even more members to their already-dominant numbers in Pennsylvania’s House and Senate. Since ...