Opinion & Essay

Late last week, as the mayoral primary barreled toward its anticlimactic conclusion, PlanPhilly published a story about a bill that would ...

If you haven’t heard about Luis Lang’s excellent adventure, you’re in for a treat. Because this South Carolina handyman ...

The infectious musical “Memphis,” which has a sweet sensibility about a serious issue, is big, blustery and a whole lot of fu ...

In an Iowa focus group the other day, some Democratic voters were quizzed about Hillary Clinton. Their host, journalist Mark Halperin, as ...

One of the most striking things about former Philadelphia City Councilman Jim Kenney’s landslide win over state Sen. Anthony Willia ...

This is more daunting than a Rubik’s cube: How in the world do you fit as many as 18 Republican candidates on one debate stage? ...

I’ve been at this a long time, and this is, bar none, the strangest election I’ve ever covered. Jim Kenney, a guy with ...

The umpteen Republican presidential candidates have fumbled and stumbled over whether they would’ve invaded Iraq, thus demonstratin ...

  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence highlights the key flaws of capital punishment. The Richards family, which ...

A newly formed group running a  negative ad in the waning days of the Philadelphia mayor’s race has filed a required report of ...

In the film Broadcast News, a TV network producer scolds a reporter for an ethical breach. She shouts at him, “You totally ...

It just keeps getting better for Jim Kenney. The day after the first independent ...

We give Amtrak roughly $1 billion a year. We waged Bush’s disastrous war in Iraq at a cost of $10 billion a month. Those s ...