Opinion & Essay

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. ...

It was a Philly political reporter’s dream: Renee Tartaglione, daughter of Northeast Philadelphia ward leader and former City Commi ...

Now playing on the national stage – Jeb Bush as Hamlet: To be, or not to be – that is the question / Whether ’tis n ...