Politics & Policy

As Philadelphia students returned to school, children’s advocates rebuked Gov. Tom Corbett for not spending more on education. ...

A plan by Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett to provide subsidized health insurance to hundreds of thousands of residents could die shortly after ...

Ukraine. ISIS. Beheadings. Ebola. Gaza. Ferguson.  This seems a particularly grim time in our world. Yet is it, really ...

Pennsylvania voters have cast ballots electronically for years, but a voter-rights group plans to argue before the state’s highest ...

President Barack Obama is defending his decision to delay taking executive action on immigration until after November’s congression ...

A rural Nevada county will send a message the old-fashioned way to Washington about what it calls federal overreach on public lands: by h ...

The White House is asking Congress for $58 million above current levels to speed the production of promising drugs to fight Ebola and to ...

Delaware and Pennsylvania have signed on with 13 other states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the issue of same-sex marriage once ...

Don’t look now, but it’s coming. On Nov. 5 it will emerge at full roar. Political etiquette demands that chatter about ...

Early in the Cold War, there were fears Russia might invade and occupy Alaska — then a U.S. territory. So Washington recruited a ...

North Korea is saying the police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, is evidence that the United States is a ...

Louisiana’s Republican governor is planning to file a lawsuit against the Obama administration, accusing it of illegally using fede ...

Tom Wolf, the Democratic nominee for governor, wants to restructure Pennsylvania income taxes so middle-class and poor families would pay ...

Maybe Texas Governor Rick Perry should give John Street a call. The former Philadelphia mayor could give Perry a few tips on how t ...