Opinion & Essay

On the cusp of the ’16 presidential cycle, we’re already entering the season of delusion, when random people get it into thei ...

“The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence,” being given an able production by Azuka Theatre, is supposed to be a play ab ...

On Fox News yesterday, the usual gang was fulminating about Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, so ...

Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Tom Wolf says he plans to shake up the culture of Harrisburg by barring anyone in his administration from accepti ...

For a primer on what can happen when a right-wing ideologue runs rampant with an economic experiment, check out the sorry state of Kansas ...

You’ve heard of the jilted bride. Now consider the instantly abandoned husband. In Federico García Lorca’s “Blood ...

“I’m practically perfect in every way,” Mary Poppins sings to her two young charges, but she could be describing the Wa ...

By next Wednesday, we should have four announced candidates for mayor of Philadelphia, all of whom have one thing in common. ...

For years, Republican climate change deniers have essentially said, “We can’t do a darn thing about this global crisis that d ...

As Philadelphia City Council embarks on hearings on the future of the city-owned Philadelphia Gas Works, the company chosen by the Nutter ...

Consider these quotes: Democrat Tip O’Neill famously said, “All politics is local.” Republican Karl Rove presciently sa ...

What has Halloween done to the play “Quills,” the fictionalized account about the chief doctor of an asylum who orders an abb ...

Every once in a while something good happens, something that restores one’s faith in humanity. So put your hands together for the v ...

It was the day after Christmas 2012, and Robert Long was out of options. The New Jersey native had seen his share of misery. From ...