Opinion & Essay

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 ...

Seth Williams, the first African American district attorney in Philadelphia, is down and soon to be out. He provides a cautiona ...

Last December, I wrote a commentary condemning hate crimes against Muslims and offering to sit down with anyone who wanted to learn about Islam or meet a Muslim.

Smoke has been billowing skyward from the Trumpster fire for nearly 100 days — I know, it feels more like 100 weeks — and his refusal ...

Last week, NewsWorks published an article about a recent report from the Independent Fiscal Office which suggested that the positive impa ...

We’re routinely peppered with twisted missives from our Commander-in-Tweet, and this weekend was no different. But it’s worth ...

I was heartened to hear U.S. Rep. Charles Dent, R-Allentown, say he believes in the Second Amendment at his recent Lehigh Valley town hal ...

Sometimes I feel as if freedom is slowly slipping away from African Americans. Not because someone is violently attempting to take ...

This July will mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen — so this year is surely a fitting time to reflect on a subject b ...

With the Philadelphia district attorney’s race heating up, many candidates are promising to make significant reforms to the o ...

“Sit back, relax, and enjoy your flight.” Yeah sure. As if. We’ve all heard that crock so many times that ...

Now is the time for us to consider scrapping the two-party system of government. Now is about the best time to reflect on how o ...

You’ve probably heard the hideous news about Trump’s budget, which basically aspires to blow up the federal debt, big league ...