Opinion & Essay

A nasty little war of words erupted late last week between Philadelphia mayoral candidates Lynne Abraham and Jim Kenney, and I couldnR ...

Playwrights fool with history all the time. — Shakespeare made a career of it. Normally, they get the basics — the found ...

Rudy Giuliani, at a dinner on We ...

All of a sudden Gordon Hirabayashi wasn’t allowed to study with his classmates at the University of Washington library at night. He ...

Just as in the time of Thurgood Marshall, impoverished black children were caught in a struggle between the haves and the have-nots. And ...

Jeb Bush says he’s not his brother’s keeper (“I’m my own man”), but, alas, he’s stuck being his broth ...

Is it crazy time? Could Sam Katz, a three-time loser in past Philadelphia mayoral bids as a Republican, win this year as an independent? ...

If you’ve figured out what President Obama’s war-on-ISIL blueprint is really about, what it allows and what it restricts, the ...

As federal holidays go, Presidents’ Day ranks low on the fun meter – unless you’re jazzed by the prospect of no mail or ...

It took designer Alison Roberts about a month to construct the enormous fat-suit costume for Charlie, the grotesque, wheezing 600-po ...

The task is distasteful, but, alas, it’s unavoidable. We need to assess the new Republican Congress, which seems determined to weak ...

Sometimes, less isn’t just more – it’s way, way more. From the get-go, Theatre Horizon co-founder Matthew Decker wanted to ...

The last time Philadelphia hosted a Democratic National Convention, the baseball A’s were still playing in Shibe Park, the culinary ...