Opinion & Essay

In the famous film “The Untouchables,” Sean Connery counsels Kevin Costner on how to fight dirty: “They pull a knife, y ...

I bring up Gary Johnson because he’s on the cusp of re-entering the political conversation. He’s the frontrunner in the under ...

I watched Hillary Clinton when she took the stage Wednesday at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention at the Sheraton Hotel i ...

Things are picking up in the campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, with attacks over Social Security an ...

How screwed up are the Republicans? Just read the Wisconsin primary exit polls. It doesn’t bode well for November when a huge chunk ...

My husband and I have a mixed marriage. He’s a Quaker; I’m an Episcopalian. Not as mixed as some, you might say. And it’ ...

How desperate is Bernie Sanders? Dire enough to smear Hillary Clinton as a tool of fossil fuel. This kind of thing typically happe ...

There’s no doubt that the drawn-out budget spat between House Republicans and Gov. Wolf has harmed kids. ...

In practice, Barack Obama has been the antithesis of openness — which is why it was so galling, last week, when he lectured a roomful o ...

Ohio Gov. John Kasich hopes to pick up momentum by winning the Pennsylvania primary this month, but his campaign could be stopped cold by ...

Who says the news is always bad? The corporate revolt against state-sanctioned homophobia is our feel-good story of the week. Put ...