Opinion & Essay

A former George W. Bush speechwriter says that resilient Hillary Clinton will be tough to beat, that his fellow Republicans are deluded i ...

The stage play adapted from “The Graduate” works best when it’s following the script of the 1967 movie that by now is o ...

It’s not hard to get bummed at the state of journalism these days, for a lot of reasons. But I got a healing dose of encoura ...

I’m on the move this morning, so I’ll leave you with this apt reminiscence of Robert F. Kennedy. The anniversary of hi ...

These two essays were written by students in Katherine Cohen’s 7th-grade English class at Greenberg Elementary in Northeast Philade ...

  Today, a reading recommendation. Take this ...

In Seth Rozin’s witty  war of values — a new play called “The Three Christs of Manhattan” — the questi ...

Rick “Oops” Perry is ...

Politically speaking, we’ve come a long way from 9/11. In the aftermath of those attacks, with emotions running high, Congre ...

In the wake of Jim Kenney’s convincing win in Philadelphia’s Democratic mayoral primary, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says he b ...

Way back in 1954, Army lawyer Joseph Welch famously rebuked right-wing demagogue Joe McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?& ...

Everything was going swimmingly for the Arden Theatre Company as its gala evening was beginning last night. And it ended with an exhilara ...