Opinion & Essay

I wouldn’t presume to suggest that I foresaw the day when a racist right-wing extremist would seriously threaten to become presiden ...

As I inch my car around the Art Museum circle, through a maze of orange cones and forklifts, I try to remember why this is happening. Why ...

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

The poseur’s presence in the White House has long ceased being funny, but on occasion he can still deliver a thigh-slapper. And he ...

Whether this windswept craggy land of 5 million will decide to take the high road to independence or the low one to the status quo, Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon has no doubts.

Over the last four years, siblings Alexus Arthur, 16, and Eugene Arthur, 13, have made meteoric strides in the ...

The state of activism in Philadelphia, and indeed throughout the United States and the world, is evolving. Reacting to the fears many mar ...

It seems perversely odd that America would elect Donald Trump at the same time that it’s mainstreaming marijuana. But hey, we live ...

It’s a rare play that suddenly gathers steam the way Lauren Gunderson’s “I and You” does. At People’s Light ...

One lesson I brought home from Tel Aviv is how to eat hummus — an important skill now that several new hummusiot have sprung u ...

Trump toady Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the hapless House Oversight Committee, was recently confronted by angry constituents. They yelled ...

Rebecca Rhynhart is well-known to City Hall insiders, where she served nine years as city treasurer, budget director, and in a new post c ...

As Ray Charles famously sang, “Ooh Georgia…The road leads back to you.” Indeed it does. We’ll be hearing a ...