Opinion & Essay

  On Saturday, when President Obama named federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch as his new attorney general, I knew it was only a ...

There was considerable interest in the Philadelphia vote in Tuesday’s gubernatorial election for a couple of reasons. First, ...

If you haven’t OD’d yet on the GOP’s midterm tsunami, join me in sifting the most interesting factoids. These 15 ...

I thought maybe after a busy week covering the election, I’d be able to let it go. But I can’t, so I’ll just say ...

If the newly empowered Republicans start claiming that they’ve won an ideological mandate to move America rightward, there’s ...

The difference between right and wrong doesn’t figure into the ways the characters think in “Red Speedo.” But what& ...

The stunning production of “The Glass Menagerie” at Act II Playhouse in Ambler is all the more stunning because it never trie ...

The day after U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah’s re-election, there’s another guilty plea in a political corruption case that federal p ...

When Jerry Moran, chairman of the GOP’s Senate campaign arm, was asked this morning whether midterm voters sent a message to the ne ...

Arden Theatre glides steadily through the broad sweep of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” – and when it comes to ...

The networks called the Pennsylvania governor’s race minutes after polls closed, but this was an election that was over before it b ...

“Nobody has polled on this yet” – I’m quoting myself, writing in another venue – “but it’s a fa ...

The comedian and theater artist Adrienne Truscott immediately begins her one-woman “Asking For It” with a piece of shtik that ...

According to the Center for Public Integrity, Tom Wolf and Tom Corbett have placed more than 20,000 TV ads apiece in the Pennsylvania gov ...