Opinion & Essay

Despite his tenuous political position as a Democrat facing reelection in a state won by Republican President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. Bob ...

Senate Democratic leaders intend to filibuster Neil Gorsuch, which basically means that Trump’s high court nominee will face a high ...

Rice Chex cereal has always been 100 percent rice, but now it boasts that it’s gluten-free. It never had gluten. But now that glute ...

It was 3 a.m. I sat up in bed, disoriented. A man and a woman were shouting. Then I heard a loud thud, followed by a banging sound, as if furniture was being moved.

As we sift the ashes of the Trumpcare flameout, we should revisit one of the biggest cons of the ’16 campaign — the notion that T ...

The Walnut Street Theatre seems a natural place to see Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which premiered ...

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

In the nation’s poorest big city, with an overburdened shelter system that regularly turns away requests for housing, our eviction rate ...

The strange special election for a vacant North Philadelphia seat in the Statehouse is staggering to a messy conclusion, with the vote co ...

“The Art of the Deal,” updated: “So my terrific advice is this. Pick an issue, a real beaut, that’s too co ...

Americans have tolerated presidential untruths since the dawn of the republic. We’ve weathered them and moved on. So far. Th ...

In 2009, the Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott withdrew his name from consideration for the honorary position of professor of poetry at Oxford ...

I still support most of what President Trump is doing. But there is one thing on which I'm disagreeing with him. I regret voting against my own interests.

In case you haven’t noticed, the Democrats have been starved for leaders. But they got one this week, at the House Intelligence hea ...

While previous protest movements such as Occupy Philadelphia and t ...