
Opinion & Essay
A precarious 101 days for a premature baby
When I went to the doctor on a cold November evening to find out whether I was having a boy or a girl, the last thing I was expecting to ...
8 years ago
Trump’s totally predictable Tuesday Night Massacre
Now that Der Leader has deposed the lead investigator of Der Leader — sabotaging the rule of law, the kind of thing that typically happ ...
8 years ago
Firing Comey opens the door for a special prosecutor
Just hours before President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, media outlets learned that federal prosecutors had subpoenaed as ...
8 years ago
The negative effects of implicit bias in schools
Last week at Colgate University in central New York, reports of a black male carrying a gun — which in reality was a Colgate student ca ...
8 years ago
Distinguishing among Philly DA candidates’ positions on the death penalty
On May 16, Philadelphians will effectively elect a new district attorney, and the candidates have different positions on an important iss ...
8 years ago
Trumpism is trounced: Seven ways to love the French
Vive La France! You gotta love those people. Let us count the ways: 1. The ...
8 years ago
Imagining an America without Roe v. Wade
With the ascension of Neil Gorsuch, were the Supreme Court to jettison Roe v. Wade, it’s fair to say the court would be ushering in a dark regime such as prevails in … Europe?
8 years ago
The politics of Trumpcare: Five reasons why an ’18 Democratic wave may not happen
According to the new conventional wisdom, Democrats will surf a tsunami of public anger over Trumpcare and capture the House of Represent ...
8 years ago
A newborn boy with a genetic heart condition; a father’s joy and dread
On Aug. 10, 2016, less than one month before my wife Kate was due to give birth to our second child, she and I received news that would change our lives forever.
8 years ago
ListenLet’s diagnose the Republicans’ health care hypocrisy
We don’t know whether the Republican crusade to kill affordable health care for millions of Americans will ultimately live or die, ...
8 years ago
Stephens misfire recalls Buckley’s ‘Cancel your own goddam subscription!’
I rise today to defend Bret Stephens, the new conservative columnist at The New York Times. Readers who were incensed by his Saturday deb ...
8 years ago
Dougherty a force in the Philly DA’s race?
Is political powerhouse electricians’ union leader John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty quietly helping candidate Jack O’Neill in the ...
8 years ago
ListenIn the fight against ‘fake news,’ we are all responsible
Anyone who has been in any profession other than priestly confessors knows that telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but is more the exception than the rule.
8 years ago
Professor Trump’s strong terrific history curriculum
Scholar Donald Trump, on Sirius XM yesterday, lecturing on American history: “They love Andrew Jackson in Tennessee. I m ...
8 years ago
Super PAC backs O’Neill in Philly DA’s race
The labor-funded super PAC that fueled Mayor Jim Kenney’s successful campaign two years ago is weighing in with a $123,000 ad buy i ...
8 years ago
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