Opinion & Essay

It’s astounding that a surgeon with zero government experience can deem himself sufficiently credentialed to run America. It’ ...

Here’s my new definition of a liberal: A conservative whose state has been devastated by a climate disaster. When the killer ...

It’s probably one of the most consequential and, so far, least noticed races in the state’s history. The battle for th ...

Unbeknownst to his liberal fans, Bernie Sanders is notoriously soft on guns — and that could hurt him badly in the left-leaning Democra ...

To say that former Philadelphia NAACP President J. Whyatt Mondesire died Sunday at ...

In the midst of President Obama’s denunciation of gun violence — if you’ve lost track, the latest massacre was on Friday ...

Last week, in the mountains of Oregon, about 180 miles from Portland, a heavily armed gunman walked into classrooms at Umpqua Community C ...

A third candidate seems poised to enter next year’s Democratic primary challenging Philadelphia U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, who’s ...

They can be brilliant and they can be cynical, petty, cutthroat hypocrites. I’m not referring to the usual suspects – I’m t ...

With respect to the latest bloodbath — the Oregon shootings will soon be supplanted by another — there’s virtually nothing to s ...

A queer Australian filmmaker living in Japan connected to the theme of domestic violence in LGBT relationships. He shares a music video he made, which examines the subject.

Hey, did I call it correctly, or what! Sixteen months ago, when the House Republicans created their special select committee to investiga ...

What a howl it was yesterday when a phalanx of House Republicans staged a ...

Marriage has been important for LGBT communities, but there are perhaps more critical issues that have been unnoticed by the dominant culture and underreported in the media.