Opinion & Essay
Put your hands together for the Mormons!
Isn’t it ironic? Every time I try to take Donald Trump seriously as a threat to win the White House, various Republicans raise thei ...
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Review: Race, theater and ‘An Octoroon’
Take something – anything — to outrageous extremes, and you might discover some new truth about it. That’s one of the point ...
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National Democrats back McGinty for U.S. Senate
The national Democratic Senate Campaign Committee has chosen a favorite in the primary battle for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate ...
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Has Bill Clinton lost his magic mojo?
When I see Bill Clinton these days, I can’t help but think about Willie Mays. Mays was arguably the greatest ballplayer of h ...
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Wolf allows GOP budget to become law, but the damage is already done
While school districts across the Commonwealth were forced to borrow about $1 billion to survive the longest budget impasse in 60 years, ...
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Pennsylvania GOP delegates don’t come easy
States have a lot of different ways of awarding delegates for the Republican presidential nomination. Pennsy ...
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The politics of terror in a climate of fear
Every terrorist attack threatens to put Donald Trump one step closer to the White House. Hey, I could be wrong. Hillary Clinton fa ...
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Toomey ads focus on cops, guns
Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey has unveiled two new TV ads that cast him as someone who supports cops and is tough on crime, but also ...
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Most Republicans are ’embarrassed’ by their campaign. Here’s the embarrassment.
It’s a landslide verdict: A whopping 60 percent of Republican voters nationwide ...
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McGinty, Fetterman, Shapiro hit airwaves
Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidates Katie McGinty and John Fetterman have released new TV ads — McGinty (above) focusing on gender pay ...
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Post-Scalia politics: Mitch McConnell meets Sigmund Freud
My dictionary defines a Freudian slip as “an inadvertent mistake in speech that is thought to reveal a person’s unconscious m ...
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Hundreds gather to discuss Bergdahl case, ‘Serial,’ and our proxy war
It’s hard to know if the second season of “Serial” has been able to capture th ...
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Anatomy of a lie: Here’s why Trump threatens our national security
Some prominent conservatives met in Washington yesterday to strategize ways to stop Donald Trump. They were stymied on solutions (natch), ...
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