
Opinion & Essay
Underground Railroad Game Raw, revealing, funny and poignant – “Underground Railroad Game” is hands-down the best ...
10 years ago
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ListenDon’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‘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
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
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
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
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
Katrina and the lessons of incompetent crony governance
The 10th anniversary of Katrina gives us the perfect opportunity to revisit George W. Bush’s most incompetent screwup (second only ...
10 years ago
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