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Opinion & Essay

 In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. A group of immigrant rights lawyers in a filing Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, say that detention of women and children caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is lengthy and unsafe, challenging the government's claims that immigrant families are held only briefly and that their detention doesn't violate a longstanding ban. (Eric Gay/AP Photo, File)
National Interest

Trump’s clown car express: Ending birthright citizenship

Donald Trump’s newly-unveiled immigration plan is predictably ridiculous – shock jockette Ann Coulter calls it “the gre ...

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Spotted: Temporary fixes for part of Camac Street’s wooden block

10 years ago

James Yates, left, and William Smith Jr. head into the Rowan County Courthouse to obtain a marriage license in Morehead, Ky., Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. In a decision on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning ordered Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis to issue marriage licenses, but she has refused after filing an appeal to the ruling to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
National Interest

Yo, bureaucratic bigots: Do your job, or quit

Gay marriage is the law of the land, but alas, 52 days after the ruling, there are still places in America where homophobic bigots on the ...

10 years ago

 Vince Valentine in 'Defending the Caveman' at Penn's Landing Playhouse.
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Forever ‘Defending the Caveman’

It’s been about 30 years since I checked in with a show about the gender wars called “Defending the Caveman,” which tur ...

10 years ago

 In Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's 'Rage of Achilles,' from left: Adam Altman as a spy,  Brian Anthony Wilson as Priam, Charlotte Northeast as a spy and Eric Scotolati as a herald. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Gudelunas/Wide Eyed Studios)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Two underlings dealing with the ‘Rage of Achilles’

Oh, the mortals are restless! Achilles the Greek is furious because his boss, Agamemnon, has made grave mistakes in war and women. He bec ...

10 years ago

 In Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's 'Rage of Achilles,' from left: Adam Altman as a spy,  Brian Anthony Wilson as Priam, Charlotte Northeast as a spy and Eric Scotolati as a herald. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Gudelunas/Wide Eyed Studios)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Two underlings dealing with the ‘Rage of Achilles’

Oh, the mortals are restless! Achilles the Greek is furious because his boss, Agamemnon, has made grave mistakes in war and women. He bec ...

10 years ago

 Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush; and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton  (Charlie Neibergall and Jim Cole/AP Photos)
National Interest

Hillary, Jeb, and the downside of deja vu

The reason we’re less than scintillated by a Hillary-Jeb ’16 scenario is because it feels like we’ve seen it all before ...

10 years ago

 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a GOP fundraising event, Tuesday, Aug 11, 2015, in Birch Run, Mich. (Carlos Osorio/AP Photo)
National Interest

Will Trump get dumped for his remarks about Planned Parenthood?

OK, maybe this is the incident that will reverse Donald Trump’s meteoric rise: On CNN the other day, he ...

10 years ago

 Image of Christian A'Xavier Lovehall, a.k.a., Wordz The Poet Emcee, from <a href='https://www.reverbnation.com/wordzthepoetemcee'>ReverbNation</a>
Speak Easy
Community

Passing as a transsexual black man, and the revolutionary courage to continue

I was finally "passing" as a black man. I also came to realize that the duties of the police to "protect and serve" did not necessarily apply to someone like me.

10 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Crossing Frankford: Time to make Fishtown’s resurgent commercial corridor crossable

10 years ago

 Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker talks about a deal to pay for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks at a news conference Thursday, June 4, 2015, in Madison, Wis. Taxpayers would pick up half the cost of a new $500 million arena for the NBA basketball team under a financial deal that would rely on current and former team owners for the rest, Walker said Thursday. (Morry Gash/AP Photo)
National Interest

Scott Walker’s government welfare for fat cats

Hey, remember Scott Walker? The alleged hot commodity who was a semi-cipher during the first Republican debate? Who has been toppled from ...

10 years ago

 (<a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-252142183/stock-photo-portrait-of-thomas-jefferson-by-rembrandt-peale-ca-s.html?src=fPtYW1nnqD8_LxU56TWXLw-1-0”>Jefferson (left)</a><a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-252135232/stock-photo-andrew-jackson-th-u-s-president.html?src=ZCphklWwQOButLWq7erUUA-1-9”> and Jackson photos </a> via ShutterStock)
National Interest

History reboot: Democrats dump the ‘Jefferson-Jackson’ brand

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson are having a very bad summer. In pollster-speak, they have “high unfavorables.” Even thou ...

10 years ago

 The cast of Quince Productions' 'The Secretaries,' part of 'GayFest!' (From left), Jennifer MacMillan, Amber Orion, Sarah Schol (in background), Katherine Perry and Emily Schuman. (Photo courtesy of John Donges)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘The Secretaries’ out for the kill

The bizarre, bloody and basely funny satire called “The Secretaries” has a contemporary rough edge, even though it was first ...

10 years ago

 Tricia Alexandro as a bag lady, Trudy. She plays multiple characters in Cape May Stage's production of 'The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.'
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Less of ‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’

Whatever happened to poor Lyn, who riffs in her backyard about life in California? Or the punk kid who works at the pancake house or her ...

10 years ago

 Republican presidential candidates (from left) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. (AP photos)
National Interest

The GOP’s women woes go far beyond Trump’s blood feud

This weekend, we heard the most priceless clarification ever issued by a presidential candidate. Ever. The Republican front-runn ...

10 years ago

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