Opinion & Essay

An alcoholic needs to have a drink all the time. A drug user needs to get a quick fix. I am obsessed with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Thomas Starzl, whose death at age 90 was in the news last week, was the most driven man I've ever met.

Three weeks have now passed since Friends’ Central administration placed two faculty on leave for the offense of chaperoning studen ...

“Gig workers” — the term often used to describe members of today’s workforce who provide services on a “per job,” or per “g ...

Steve Martin used to play a character called Theodoric of York, a medieval physician who insisted on trying to cure sick people by hangin ...

I spend a lot of time in the place no one wants to be — the cancer center. Every two weeks I’m there with my husband. He is the p ...

Sometimes it’s possible to tell a big story in few words — as evidenced by an episode earlier this week that nicely illustrates t ...

“Moonlight” is more than just an LGBT story. It subtly redefines who and what the black community is. Yes, there is violence, ...

Just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, The Hill — a news organization that covers Congress — reported the incoming admi ...

When Rich Negrin talks about why he wants to be Philadelphia’s district attorney, he talks about his ideas, his legal and manageria ...

House Republicans have finally unveiled their vision for health care — eight years in the making! the suspense was killing us! — and ...

I watched with concern as yet another unruly group of teens created chaos in Center City on Monday, purportedly with the help of social m ...

Just hours before the filing deadline Tuesday, a new candidate jumped into the Democratic primary for Philadelphia district attorney. ...

Donald Trump says that Democrats and journalists are trying to delegitimize his presidency. But the real issue is Trump’s methodica ...

How does a Muslim boy born in Bangladesh end up at the University of Pennsylvania Law School? By winning the lottery, of cours ...