Opinion & Essay
Gerrymandering battle draws a crowd in Pa.
Could a citizens’ group defy tradition and change Pennsylvania politics? Fair Districts PA, which has taken on the issue of ...
9 years ago
ListenThe changing nature of paper reflects the changing way we communicate
If music has charms to calm the savage breast, can art soothe the distraught body politic? “Paperscapes” at the ...
9 years ago
It’s open season on law-abiding immigrants, but Trump says nothing
This president has his priorities. When a department store chain dumped his daughter’s products, he swiftly tweeted about the unfai ...
9 years ago
I asked Senator Casey to vote against Neil Gorsuch
President Trump’s nomination of Federal Appeals Court Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court has been lauded in conservative circles.< ...
9 years ago
The wife of a transgender woman has her own transition to make
Just over a year ago, Mark, my husband of almost 15 years and best friend for 23, the person with whom I have had two remarkable children ...
9 years ago
Nerd Prom politics: Guess who’s not coming to dinner
The best news all weekend was Donald Trump’s tweeted decision to boycott the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Association ...
9 years ago
My car is as clean as my conscience
Have you ever noticed that when a friend offers you a ride and you get in their car, they usually say, “Sorry about the mess,” ...
9 years ago
Black History Month is not enough
It’s that time of year again, Black History Month, the month that brings attention to the American history that doesn’t get much “a ...
9 years ago
This is what depression feels like
I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a solitary candle about to blow out at any moment. At the same ...
9 years ago
Finding joy in that black girl magic
In a time when children are forced to grow up too fast, my wife and I feel fortunate to be able to watch our two teenage daughters ease into adolescence.
9 years ago
Ill-conceived ‘waters of the U.S.’ rule faces regulatory rollback
President Trump is committed to eliminating the Waters of the U.S. Rule, which outlines federally protected ...
9 years ago
A whiff of Nixon in the Kremlingate scandal
OK, now can we have an independent probe? Now can we have a special prosecutor? I’ll just let these ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Lost Girls’ barely holding on
Not far from Theatre Exile’s Studio X, where a punch-in-the-gut drama called “Lost Girls” is playing, there’s a m ...
9 years ago
Women’s emotional labor on your behalf comes with a cost
I have opened my mind and my heart and given my time to others to unload their burdens on me despite my own turmoil and trauma, because I thought it was my duty as a woman.
9 years ago
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