Opinion & Essay

Here’s the current GOP talking point, distilled to its essence: What’s way worse than waterboarding and rectal feeding is the ...

In modern times, we say “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but in 1740 a French woman named Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de ...

When we last checked on the George Washington Bridge scandal, Chris Christie – and a gaggle of deep-pocketed Republican donors R ...

When I was new to the newspaper business – a “cub reporter,” in the parlance of that distant time – my mentors pr ...

An ambitious undertaking called “The Sincerity Project” might be the most insincere thing going on a stage these days – whi ...

Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke, at the center of the will-he-or-won’t-he-run-for-mayor guessing game, is holdin ...

Why are “The Supremes” — Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan —  boogeying like that? And wh ...

I’m staying with the Eric Garner story – although this post is really about Rand Paul, and why he is such a policy lightweigh ...

For an American playwright, John Patrick Shanley writes one heck of an Irish play. “Outside Mullingar,” in a radiant producti ...

In the continuing fallout from the corruption-fueled implosion of Philadelphia Traffic Court, a federal judge has sentenced former Presid ...

So a white cop murders an unarmed black man (my take; the New York Medical Examiner ...

Not again. Not another unarmed man killed by those whose salaries we pay. Not another death swept aside by grand jury proceedings. ...