Politics & Policy

On a mild Tuesday night eight years and one week ago, I took a road trip from Detroit to Chicago. I was a 29-year-old graduate student ...

Hundreds of Philadelphia-area college students walked out of classes Wednesday as part of a national day of action urging unive ...

Last week, Pennsylvania voters of both parties watched in surprise — and, in some cases, shock — as Donald Trump won the commonwealth ...

Immigrants, their advocates and others opposing a Donald Trump presidency continued to protest Sunday, speaking out against the president ...

How ironic. Just as many Americans were threatening to move to Canada, an installation opened on Independence Mall to replicate the exper ...

Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey won re-election last week while keeping his distance from presidential nominee Donal ...

Lamenting the election of Donald Trump as president, nearly 2,000 protesters assembled Wednesday evening at Thomas Paine Plaza in Center ...

Donald Trump’s path to victory in Pennsylvania came down to a handful of counties with excruciatingly close returns. Trump’s ...

Shirley Chisholm, the first black wo ...

Three Pennsylvania state House races in the Philadelphia suburbs remain too close to call, with small vote margins separating the candida ...

Jermaine Lassiter sat on a stool inside the Mayfair Diner on Wednesday morning with a hot tea in his hand and a 1,000-yard stare in his e ...

Hillary Clinton told supporters Wednesday that they owed Donald Trump “an open mind and a chance to lead.” Addressing ...

The Republican tide in Pennsylvania Tuesday wasn’t limited to the presidential election and the U.S. Senate race. The GOP captured ...

Donald Trump’s election and a Republican majority in Congress have put the Affordable Care Act on shaky ground. A repeal of the law ...

Pennsylvania does not have a voter ID ...