Opinion & Essay

Sixty days before the inauguration‚ henceforth to be known as Enthronement Day — the craven corruption has already commenced. ...

The history of kings and emperors and rulers is replete with tales of madness, illness and general unsuitability for office.

Here’s an easy way to spot this season’s Grinches, Scrooges and assorted partypoopers: They’re the ones not smiling at ...

When Vice-President-elect Mike Pence went to see the hit Broadway play “Hamilton” this past weekend, the cast — with producers’ p ...

Who are the Trump voters? And what if one of them is your best friend?

I’ll start today with a story about Taylor Swift. It’s actually a non-story, but that’ ...

When I heard that One Book One Philadelphia had chosen ...

Will Donald Trump’s success in Pennsylvania inspire copy-cat campaigns for governor? Looks like we already have one. If you ...

This is absurd. This is an outrage. For the second time in only five elections we are about to inaugurate a president who received fewer ...

When you see a scrap of paper on the sidewalk, what do you do? Probably nothing, unless you’re cleaning the sidewalk. Then you swee ...

Future historians will study the ’16 election and marvel at the fact that a minority of voters — currently a second-place 46.8 pe ...

I’m about to run my 100th marathon with cancer, and I’m delighted that I’ll be pounding it out here on the ...

On a mild Tuesday night eight years and one week ago, I took a road trip from Detroit to Chicago. I was a 29-year-old graduate student ...

We’re all so fixated on what’s happening right now in Washington – where Team Trump, shocked by its own victory, is scr ...

It’s safe to say that nobody ever imagined a scenario where Hillary Clinton would win the popular vote by roughly one million peopl ...