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Opinion & Essay

 Falling gas prices dip below $2 a gallon in Texas. (AP Photo)
National Interest

Remember when high gas prices were “Obama’s fault?”

Three years ago, when the average gallon of gas was spiking north of $4, Republicans said it was Obama’s fault. Yet today, with the ...

10 years ago

 Scott Sheppard and Jennifer Kidwell is 'Underground Railroad Game.' (Photo courtesy of Tamara Rodriguez) Reichberg
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Fringe reviews: ‘Underground Railroad Game,’ ‘The Shoplifters,’ ‘Exit the King’ and ‘Zombies … with Guns’

Underground Railroad Game Raw, revealing, funny and poignant – “Underground Railroad Game” is hands-down the best ...

10 years ago

National Interest

Happy holiday: Fox News busts Dick Cheney

Sorry to interrupt your Labor Day, but I had to invite you to a barbecue with Dick Cheney as the main course. The long-discredited ...

10 years ago

Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Fringe review: ‘A Doll’s House’

In his loopy take on Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece “A Doll’s House,” Norwegian playwright/director/choreographer Jo ...

10 years ago

 Marieke Heebink (left) and Gaite Jansen in Toneelgroep Amsterdam's 'Persona.' (Photo courtesy of JJ Tiziou)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Fringe reviews: ‘The Captive’ and ‘After the Rehearsal/Persona’

The Captive I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you – or I may have been in 1926, when Edouard Bordet’s “La Prision ...

10 years ago

 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a news conference at Trump Tower, in New York, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. Trump ruled out the prospect of a third-party White House bid and vowed to support the Republican Party's nominee, whoever it may be. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)
National Interest

Trump says his foreign policy ignorance is no big deal

The Herman Cain “Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan” Prize (named for the short-lived GOP frontrunner who didn’t know ...

10 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Philly Ethics Board whacks late filers

The Philadelphia Ethics Board told candidates running for city office this year that if they were late filing required campaign finance r ...

10 years ago

 Presidential contenders Donald Trump (left) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (Scott Heppell and LM Otero/AP Photos)
National Interest

What Jeb gets wrong about The Donald

Pity poor Jeb. The last thing he wanted, in his campaign to claim the Bush family crown, was to get sucked into Donald Trump’s sand ...

10 years ago

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference following a meeting with foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015 in Doha. (Brendan Smialowski/pool photo via AP)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Kerry in Philly: Advocates of Iran deal outgunned by opponents

Secretary of State John Kerry makes a pretty persuasive case for proposed nuclear deal for Iran, but check out the national Quinnipiac ...

10 years ago

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 Shannon Miles is escorted out of a courtroom after a hearing, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, in Houston. Miles has been charged with capital murder in the death of Harris County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Goforth. He is being held without bond. (Pat Sullivan/AP Photo)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Don’t blame Black Lives Matter

Last Friday, Daron Goforth, a Houston-area sheriff’s deputy, was killed when Shannon Miles allegedly approached the uniformed offic ...

10 years ago

Listen
 Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, right, talks with David Moore following her office's refusal to issue marriage licenses at the Rowan County Courthouse in Morehead, Ky., Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Although her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied, Davis still refuses to issue marriage licenses. (Timothy D. Easley/AP Photo)
National Interest

‘Under God’s authority’: Where theocracy meets hypocrisy

Let’s return to Rowan County, Kentucky, where public servant Kim Davis is still laboring under the theocratic delusion that she can ...

10 years ago

 Mt. McKinley is seen on a rare sunny day, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011, in Denali National Park, Alaska. Mt. McKinley is the highest mountain peak in North America and the United States, with a summit elevation of 20,320 feet (6,194 m) above sea level. (Becky Bohrer/AP Photo)
National Interest

Obama haters’ heads detonate over DenaliGate

What could be more entertaining, on a hot summer day, than revisiting the American idiocracy, which is obsessed at the moment with the pr ...

10 years ago

 Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams. (NewsWorks file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Philly NOW: Williams must act on email porn

The Philadelphia chapter of the National Organization for Women is wondering why Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams hasn’ ...

10 years ago

National Interest

Is the Democratic debate calendar rigged for Hillary?

My question: Has the Democratic debate calendar been rigged for the benefit of Hillary Clinton? My answer: Of course it has. ...

10 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

An ethical slip for Philly DA’s spokesman

The spokesman for Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has resigned his board membership in a Democratic LGBT group following a c ...

10 years ago

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