Opinion & Essay

Mark Twain once said, “The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy.” If only he were ...

After such an intensely polarizing election, it’s hard for people to imagine how communities with very different backgrounds might ...

It’s a federal holiday and I’m on the move, so I’ll just share some new stats. Gallup has surveyed our less than ...

Carrie Fisher’s death at 60 came as a shock. Known as Princess (and later, General) Leia to generations of Star Wars fans, sh ...

As we move into a New Year, the triumphs and failures of 2016 loom large in our memories. We survived an election that laid ...

Philadelphia City Controller Alan Butkovitz will have a challenger in this spring’s Democratic party, a veteran city finance execut ...

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has by most accounts had a successful first year in office. But one renowned former mayor thinks hizzoner c ...

Let’s start with the FBI’s chilling ...

My friend Maria and I were going out to dinner. Although we usually ate at an Indian restaurant near my house, she’d asked a few da ...

“Heroin has destroyed my life, and I don’t even use the stuff.” When I heard my mom’s friend say that, my ...

It was sadly surreal last night to leave a Los Angeles screening of “La La Land” — a rhapsodic dreamscape about the dance o ...

After meeting Lolly, I suddenly understood that I had a third grandmother — still a sparkplug — someone I may have never really known ...

If you’re good at rolling dice or playing the numbers, you might have the key ingredient to becoming a Philadelphia judge: luck. Th ...

To set the stage for Mary the rebel Rockette, I first need to quote what I wrote here ...