Opinion & Essay

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama talked domestic policy with a metaphorical spring in his step. But on foreign policy, h ...

On the heels of President Barack Obama’s uplifting State of the Union address comes news that will dash the hopes of many. A ...

Attorney Ken Trujillo has suddenly dropped out of the Philadelphia mayor’s race, and is urging former city Human Services Commissio ...

What were those lyrics, the ones that Janis Joplin famously sang? Oh yeah: “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to l ...

The minute we lay eyes on Alice, which is the minute Patrick Marber’s play “Closer” begins, one thought comes to m ...

Washington is like a cable TV series that stays on the air too long – think Weeds, think Dexter – recycling ...

The second half of the theater season is beginning to bud, and with about 50 professional theater companies in metropolitan Philadelphia, ...

“Times have changed,” Cole Porter wrote as the first three words to “Anything Goes,” and the current Mauckingbird ...

A writer named Dan O’Brien tuned into “Fresh Air” on August 27, 2007, and this is what Terry Gross was saying: & ...

Martin Luther King….It’s his world and we only live in it – at least for today. So the least we can do is take two minu ...

For any black artist who has ventured into the mainstream world of media and entertainment, “Selma” director Ava Duvernay bei ...

Back in 2013, I wrote: “Generations from now, Americans living in a marriage-equality culture will marvel at the anti-gay reactiona ...

Are the best times in the theater when things go terribly wrong? Not in my experience, but the best times in David Mamet’s 1977 pla ...