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Opinion & Essay

National Interest

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s frat house hijinks

  Somebody should pitch a reality show called Keystone Court Capers. Too bad Animal House is already ...

12 years ago

 Christie Parker (left) and Bi Jean Ngo in InterAct Theater Company's world premiere of 'Caught.' (Photo courtesy of  Plate 3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Caught’ in an intriguing labyrinth

Is there such a thing as being close to the truth, or is that the definition of a lie? Well, it is not a matter of truth or fiction, but ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Three reasons to vote for the Office of Sustainability

12 years ago

 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie urges Republicans to work for Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett at a Bucks County rally. (Mel Evans/AP)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Corbett, Christie fire up faithful as Pa. race tightens

Bouyed by polls showing the race tightening, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett barnstormed though the Philadelphia suburbs Sunday, finishing ...

12 years ago

 Dan DeLuca gives instructions to the striking newsboys in 'Newsies,' beginning its national tour at the Academy of Music. (Photo courtesy of Deen van Meer)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Newsies,’ when urchins helped make press lords rich

Too bad that the national tour of Disney’s “Newsies” is running at the Academy of Music only through the weekend, becau ...

12 years ago

 Apple chief executive and Alabama native Tim Cook waves to the crowd during an Alabama Academy of Honor ceremony at the state Capitol Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, in Montgomery, Ala. Cook and seven others including University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban were inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)
National Interest

Tim Cook’s iGay: Will his rollout have global resonance?

Until yesterday, 0 percent of the Fortune 500 CEOs were openly gay. Tim Cook’s coming out – a metaphor for a more tolerant Am ...

12 years ago

 Darlene Sutherland grew up in Media, Delaware County, in a mostly black community, and felt the effects of colorism firsthand. (Solomon Jones/ for Newsworks)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Michael Brown and the deadly effects of colorism

The outcry triggered by the killings of unarmed men by police officers — from Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Mo., to ...

12 years ago

 House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, (right), watches President Barack Obama speak during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 in Washington (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo, file)
National Interest

Boehner suing Obama: Whatever happened to that stunt?

Hey, remember the House GOP’s big summer ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Will Philly turn out for Tom Wolf?

If polls are right and Democrat Tom Wolf is really 13 points ahead of incumbent Tom Corbett in the Pennsylvania governor’s race, th ...

12 years ago

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PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

$1.7 million for Bartram’s Mile as swing bridge study continues

12 years ago

 The Prince Theater in Philadelphia will close. (NewsWorks File Photo)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

The Prince Music Theater’s template became the norm

The news that the Prince Music Theater, on Chestnut Street in the shadow of City Hall, will be shutting its doors and that its producing ...

12 years ago

 Former Secretary of State of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. (Chuck Burton and Charles Dharapak/AP Photos)
National Interest

Hillary, Elizabeth Warren, and the Democratic divide

You get the feeling that Hillary Clinton is peering warily over her left shoulder at Elizabeth Warren, if only because the presumed ̵ ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Spotted: CHOP demolitions, expansions underway

12 years ago

 David Kutner (left) and Chris Sturm of New Jersey Future.
Speak Easy
Science

Preparing for the next hurricane requires making tough decisions

Two years after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy, many of New Jersey’s coastal communities continue to struggle with reco ...

12 years ago

National Interest

Sexist Republican ads won’t sway single women

I recently highlighted the campaign season’s most repugnantly ...

12 years ago

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