
Opinion & Essay
Members of Congress divided on Trump immigration order
As demonstrators swarmed to airports to protest President Trump’s executive order on refugees and immigrants, our region’s Co ...
8 years ago
ListenTrump’s destructive incompetence is cause for optimism
The good news is that Donald Trump is already under seige from a nonpartisan citizen backlash — liberals and conservatives, Democr ...
8 years ago
Executive order on immigration diminishes us all
To those who support President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim co ...
8 years ago
Faust in Philly: Republicans forfeit their souls
I assume you’re familiar with Faust, the 16th-century character of German legend who sold his soul and his moral integrity to the D ...
8 years ago
Review: Intellects sparring lustily in ‘Marcus/Emma’
What do you get when you pair America’s most visionary black nationalist with America’s most radical anarchist? If you’ ...
8 years ago
Health care must be provided communally
Every once in a while, when I write something in defense of the Affordable Care Act, or point out that repealing it will lead 1.1 million ...
8 years ago
Illegality and ignorance: Trump’s lust for Iraqi oil
The Trumpster fire is raging on so many fronts that it’s virtually impossible to parse every outburst of dangerous ignorance. But s ...
8 years ago
Review: ‘Informed Consent’ and the power of creation stories
It taxes credibility and has a cheap ending to boot, but we’re going to have to overlook the weak points in Deborah Zoe Laufer̵ ...
8 years ago
Will the men in the white coats drag Trump away?
Check out the 25th Constitutional Amendment. A vice president, working with a “majority of either the principle officers of the exe ...
8 years ago
The sky isn’t falling — but it sure looks like it could
On the north side of Chestnut, opposite the Prince Theater, construction crews are building two hotels, one of which will rise 52 stories ...
8 years ago
Saturday was fine, but voting trumps marching
For the millions who flooded the streets on Saturday, the marches were a cathartic opportunity to blow off steam and send a message to Tr ...
8 years ago
The best way to walk through political adversity is hand in hand
A child’s mitten was propped on the metal post of some outdoor shelving on Germantown Avenue. Bubblegum flag against all that winter gr ...
8 years ago
Don’t dismiss Saturday’s march as ‘thoughtless excitement’ of ‘angry women’
When you step onto a subway train, there are a lot of things you could smell that are worse than Sharpies, so on Saturday morning, I didn ...
8 years ago
The first shot has been fired in the War on Facts
Comrade Kellyannesky (R-Kremlin) has decreed that “alternative facts” equal empirical facts. Excellent. When I ventured outdo ...
8 years ago
How do we fix Philadelphia’s poverty under President Trump?
In the hours after President Donald Trump was sworn in on Friday, the battle for America’s soul took shape. President Trump and ...
8 years ago
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