Opinion & Essay

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 ...

Former Republican mayoral candidate Sam Katz has changed his voter registration to unaffiliated, positioning him to run as an independent ...

Accompanying Howard Shapiro’s review, we also present the reviews of three audience members who attended Wednesday’s ope ...

I’ll tell you a little story about Bob Simon, the veteran CBS News correspondent who was ...

When Tom Wolf ran for governor of Pennsylvania last year, he was blessed to have never sponsored a bill or cast a legislative vote. < ...

There’s an old joke that Pennsylvania is a state with two big cities and “Alabama” in between. Perish the though ...

The Brian Williams brouhaha shouldn’t blind us to the other blatant lies currently in circulation. Lest we forget, February’s ...

Is the Philadelphia School District for sale? That seems to be the central question facing taxpayers in the wake of a $35 million ...

The Philadelphia School Partnership, the nonprofit that last week offered the school district $25 million to expand charter schools, now ...

Since Brian Williams is still the topic du jour, I’ll weigh in with the material that fell outside the purview of my Frida ...