Politics & Policy

What did they die for, these young men in blue? And why should it matter now, 150 years later?&n ...

Despite the overturn of the Defense of Marriage Act provision barring same-sex married couples from federal benefits, each state will sti ...

Following today’s Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, we turned to Angela Giampolo, gay rights lawyer and chair of ...

It was foreseeable when Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong and Moscow that all the secrets he was carrying on his four laptops would fall i ...

In an earlier post, I told you about a series of community forum ...

This post is updated now with the full list of forums.  For the last year, a horde of Jersey Shore property owners ...

As a law student in the 1970’s, I studied tax law under Stanley Surrey, a former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy under President ...

While it’s unclear whether the Pennsylvania legislature will vote to do away with the state store system, the contending forces in ...

This week, the Supreme Court will issue its decision in a high-profile case challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Also called ...

One of the nation’s leading political analysts has changed his rating of next year’s Pennsylvania governor’s race  ...

The 12th Amendment, which combines a party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates onto one ticket, turned 209 this weeken ...

Since its earliest days, the United States of America has been a great experiment testing whether a free people are capable of governing ...

Young immigrants in New Jersey are pushing the state Legislature to take up a version of the federal Dream Act by the end of the month. ...