Opinion & Essay

Voters in one North Philadelphia state House district will be electing a new representative Tuesday in a very strange special election. ...

Forgive me if I refrain today from writing about our craven King Leer. My reason is purely personal. It concerns Jimmy Breslin. Yo ...

There is much to be learned from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” written in 1949, which has suddenly jumped again ...

Philadelphia’s recreation centers, parks, and libraries have been in need of revitalization for decades. Broken HVAC systems, water-log ...

The current presidential administration is ...

Having lashed himself to a baldfaced lie, Donald Trump can’t even hide inside the Fox News cocoon. Nobody, except for maybe ...

Ask Larry Krasner, who’s never worked as a prosecutor, why he’s the right guy to be Philadelphia’s next district attorn ...

Helping kids be creative is the best way to make them innovators. Minecraft, social media, and connected learning tools can build social skills, and drive civic engagement.

How easy it was to hit the campaign trail and wow the naifs with lines like this: “We’re gonna win so much, you’re gonn ...

After 21 years as a Municipal Court Judge, Teresa Carr Deni hopes to move into Philadelphia’s district ...

The union representing Philadelphia police officers and associations of African-American and Hispanic officers have endorsed Rich Negrin ...

You may not have noticed — who can possibly keep track of everything? — that the Trump regime just blew a big deadline. The Re ...

 Donald Trump, January 15, 2017: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody.” The nonpartisa ...

Should we introduce military or community service for 18-year-olds? I believe that the benefits outweigh the negatives, provided that the ...

Every once in a while, a politician will ditch the double talk and bare his true self. Paul Ryan did it the other night, declaring with f ...