Politics & Policy

Elbridge Gerry, born today in 1744, was an American Revolutionary leader, Declaration of Independence signer, Constitutional delegat ...

Attorney General Kathleen Kane insists she is not violating her oath of office in deciding not to defend Pennsylvania’s marriage la ...

It was a night for expressing hopes, and the skepticism that undermines them. About 60 people gathered at WHYY Monday night for th ...

As all eyes were on the case of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin, something else came to the nation’s attention: “ ...

Pennsylvania’s voter ID law is back in the spotlight. Sort of.   The legislation, which supporters say would pre ...

Back when Republicans controlled the U.S. Senate, minority Democrats employed and defended their use of the filibuster, blocking votes on ...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Of all the wise words attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King ...

There’s an impasse over whether Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane can or cannot refuse to defend the state’s ban on ...

The Pennsylvania state budget just signed by Gov. Tom Corbett includes a 23 percent funding increase for the state Office of Open Records ...

It may have been a little while since you heard talk about “the sequester.” One local lawmaker says it’s unfair and are ...

Immigration legislation pending in Congress could boost revenue for New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, according to a stud ...

Is anyone moved by the fake concern of the most partisan Democrats, like Senators Reid, Schumer, Menendez and Durbin, and liberal editori ...

Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalized in critical bu ...