
Opinion & Essay
Philadelphia’s protestors must embrace a diversity of causes, including environmental justice
As a public health advocate, it can be difficult to situate environmental issues in the larger progressive struggle. Today’s activists ...
8 years ago
Dissing the judiciary: Guess who doesn’t grasp the separation of powers
What does it say about our commander in tweet that he voices more respect for the Russian thug than for the American judges who protect o ...
8 years ago
Today it is Muslims. Tomorrow it could be you.
I’ve watched with mounting concern as religious freedom has been challenged at the highest levels of American government. At the ...
8 years ago
ListenBumblers in the Trump bunker: A raid gone wrong
Unless your head is buried so deep in the ground that you can see our Australian enemy, the ...
8 years ago
Review: Simply ‘Having Our Say’
When the Delany sisters speak, you listen. You have to. Between them, they have more than two centuries of recollections and wisdom. So i ...
8 years ago
Review: Simply ‘Having Our Say’
When the Delany sisters speak, you listen. You have to. Between them, they have more than two centuries of recollections and wisdom. So i ...
8 years ago
It’s time to revisit the warning I issued nine months ago, when I wrote that the imminent Republican nominee was a seriously sick p ...
8 years ago
Why I traded New York for Philly
Commentator Maria Sherman explains what led to her to make the move from New York to Philadelphia.
8 years ago
Goodbye Garland, hello Gorsuch: The power play that paid off
When Senate Republicans decided last year to ditch their constitutional duty – by stiffing President Obama’s eminently qualif ...
8 years ago
Steamfitters urge Pennsylvania’s energy development
Even in this hyper-political environment, there is one issue where both parties are in total agreement: Great nations build and ...
8 years ago
DA candidates raising cash; self-funder Untermeyer leads pack
Candidates for district attorney of Philadelphia have raised more than $800,000 for the upcoming race, according to campaign finance repo ...
8 years ago
From reality TV clown to Nixon on steroids: ‘You’re fired!’
Both of these things are true: The tinpot despot was well within his rights to fire the acting Attorney General — but the acting Attorn ...
8 years ago
A view of Trump’s wall from our neighbors to the south
During a recent vacation week in Playa del Carmen, a tourist town 30 miles south of the Cancun airport, I chatted with dozens of locals, ...
8 years ago
For a refugee, making it work in America means not being afraid to ask for help
I don’t find myself very special. I know there are thousands of people like me who work hard to survive, to make money to support their ...
8 years ago
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