Opinion & Essay

Within six months, we’ll know who the Democratic nominee for mayor of Philadelphia is, and in my countless years of covering Philly ...

The once and future King Arthur has never had it as good (or as goofy) as he’s having it these days and nights at People’s Li ...

Read this sentence, from President Obama’s second Inaugural Address, and get ready to roll your eyes: “A decade of war is now ...

St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced Monday night that Ferguson (Mo.) Police Officer Darren Wilson has not been indicte ...

Nothing in politics has been more perversely entertaining than the endless attempts by tinfoil-hatted conservatives to hype Benghazi as a ...

Richard Feynman lived large, and what he got in return was large indeed. Feynman, who died in 1988 at the age of 69, was that most vision ...

The Bill Cosby I know is a generous man who advised me as I sought to write a book of family humor, introduced me to an editor at a natio ...

And now, Neil Simon – seriously. The playwright who gave us plenty of laughs in such New York-based shows as “Barefoot in the Par ...

Of all the bad jobs in America – garbage collector, toll booth worker, septic tank cleaner – maybe the worst is GOP leader. G ...

When state Sen. Anthony Williams kicked off of his mayoral campaign yesterday, the event was richly stocked with those in the city’ ...

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Why does MSNBC indulge Al Sharpton by giving him a show? And the documente ...

The head spins. Over the past week, I’ve learned City Controller Alan Butkovitz won’t be running for mayor of Philadelphia af ...

So here we are again, teetering on the edge of another political precipice. President Obama’s ...