Opinion & Essay

Remember the GOP’s fury last weekend, when the news broke that President Obama had swapped seven imprisoned Iranians for five Ameri ...

Isn’t it great to have Sarah Palin back in the news cycle, if only for a few milliseconds? Oh you betcha. Which isn’t ...

If you care about the future of American democracy, make it your business to read Jane Mayer’s new book, “Dark Money.” ...

Bernie Sanders wants us to “Feel the Bern.” But if he’s the nominee this fall, Democrats will Feel the Bummer. Because ...

Bernie Sanders says he wants to enact universal health care – or, as he calls it, “Medicare for all.” That is indeed a ...

I have often thought that Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is woefully incomplete. We celebrate him as an almost mythical figure who ...

At the first preview performance of his new play “Funnyman,” Bruce Graham sat at the top row of the theater at the Arden R ...

Go figure: 7,000 people have volunteered to help out, free of compensation, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July ...

There’s no point in parsing all the verbal volleys in the latest Republican ...

In a video in which he strolls through Wall Street (above),  John Fetterman, the unorthodox, outsider candidate for the U.S. Senate ...

It’s been a heady week for the Wilma Theater. First, its co-founder and artistic director Blanka Zizka announced a $10 million camp ...

If we’re jonesing for twisted black humor, who needs Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes when we’ve got the GOP? Seriou ...

At the House podium last night, President Obama gave us a mixed message. He urged everyone to lower their partisan voices in the spirit o ...

When I watched philanthropist and media owner H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest explaining his plan to save Philadelphia’s ailing ne ...