
Politics & Policy
Philly delegation reflects on the do ‘next to nothing’ Congress
The 113th Congress was so unmemorable, it will likely be confined to a footnote in history books: it’s the second least produc ...
11 years ago
ListenFaith vs. science, a phony fight fueled by the ill-informed
Uh-oh, Neil deGrasse Tyson has been making mischief on Twitter. Driven by God knows what compulsion, America’s most famous a ...
11 years ago
ListenIn a time wounded by violence on our streets, let us speak with care
I’m sitting here staring at my keyboard, trying to find words that somehow keep up with the pace of awful news from the streets of ...
11 years ago
ListenWe can’t see the movie, but the poster is cool!
Who knows if we’ll ever get to see the movie? But I’ve been thinking the movie poster is kind of cool! (Hope this ...
11 years ago
Tom Knox weighs in on Philly mayor’s race, instead of jumping into it
Millionaire Tom Knox may be endorsing Democratic state Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams for Philadelphia mayor next year, but that doesn’ ...
11 years ago
Corbett pushing ahead with health plan
Though Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett leaves office in just five weeks, he’s not giving up on his alternative to expanding Medicaid ...
11 years ago
Two millennials running for Philly City Council
Two Philadelphia millennials are running as Democrats for at-large City Council seats. Isaiah Thomas, a 30-year-old adjunct profes ...
11 years ago
With one episode left, will ‘Serial’ land well, or crash and burn?
Have you been getting your weekly dose of Serial, the addictive true-crime podcast fr ...
11 years ago
ListenMy Senate testimony on Obama immigration executive order
Testimony of Jan C. Ting Professor of Law, T ...
11 years ago
Pa., NJ rated corrupt by journalists in Harvard study
A recent survey from Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics ranks Pennsylvania and New Jersey among the most corrupt states, while Delaw ...
11 years ago
In new memoir, PA Open Records chief talks about keeping her lesbian relationship secret
Terry Mutchler served as Pennsylvania’s first executive director of the Office of Open Records, but she knows how to keep a secret. ...
11 years ago
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