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Opinion & Essay

 Protestors gather at the U.S. Courthouse at 6th and Market streets in Philadelphia to support the Fort Dix Five on May 23, 2011. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Speak Easy

The NewsWorks 6 — famous newsworthy groupings from the Philly region

The 40th anniversary next week of the ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Democratic groups pile on Corbett early

I’m not surprised that the Pennsylvania governor’s race has devolved into attack ads, though I confess I didn’t expect ...

12 years ago

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The Philadelphia Experiment

Watching Philly education go up in smoke

Is Philadelphia so desperate for funding that we are now dependent upon drug sales to pay for public education? That’s what Phil ...

12 years ago

 WWII veteran and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole waves after taking part in a wreath laying ceremony at a 10th anniversary ceremony for the WWII Memorial in Washington, Saturday, May 24, 2014. (Molly Riley/AP Photo)
National Interest

Who could possibly oppose a pact aiding the disabled? Take a guess

I have four words for you today: United Nations and Bob Dole. Hey, don’t nod off. This is a great under ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Pinning future for New Kensington on Orinoka Mills reuse

12 years ago

 As the audience gathers toward them, Adam Kerbel (back to camera) talks with Aimé Donna Kelly in Applied Mechanics'
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘We Are Bandits’ in a single community

Theater happens wherever it’s made, and in two places at once: the theater itself and whatever place is created on the stage. In th ...

12 years ago

 White House press secretary Josh Earnest is shown taking the podium for a daily press briefing at the White House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)
National Interest

Obama spokesman whines hypocritically about ‘anonymous sources’

Timing is everything, in writing as in life. And as luck would have it, my column early yesterday — about the Obama team’s ill tr ...

12 years ago

 Playwright Christopher Durang as Vanya and Marilu Henner as Masha in Durang's
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ and the playwright, too

Bucks County Playhouse is doing “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” just the way it should be done: as a whole-hearted goof ...

12 years ago

 Top figures in the mainstream press have rightly been complaining for years that Obama has been uniquely untransparent.(J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
National Interest

An Obama-media lovefest? Quite the opposite

  Did anyone see the recent CNN ...

12 years ago

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The Philadelphia Experiment

Simons says stop shooting

On Wednesday afternoon, I came home to find helicopters circling an area close to my home, and I immediately knew something was wrong.&nb ...

12 years ago

 Ben Dibble in Flashpoint Theatre Company's production of 'Herringbone' (Photo courtesy of Ian Guzzone)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: A ‘Herringbone’ that’s checkered

From: The Department of Basic Accuracy and Clarity Re: Flashpoint Theatre’s “Herringbone” We have complet ...

12 years ago

 A woman walks at the site of a crashed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne, eastern Ukraine Friday, July 18, 2014. Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners were combing a sprawling area in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border where the Malaysian plane ended up in burning pieces Thursday, killing all 298 aboard. (Dmitry Lovetsky/AP Photo)
National Interest

A plane is shot down. What would Reagan do?

Smoke from the Malaysian plane wreckage had barely begun to spiral skyward when the first rhetorical salvos were fired at President Obama ...

12 years ago

 In this Nov. 5, 2012 file photo, Todd Akin, then a Missouri Republican Senate candidate, campaigns in Florissant, Mo. Akin, whose “legitimate rape” comments during the 2012 U.S. Senate campaign were roundly criticized now says he was wrong to apologize. Akin says in a new book that his remarks on whether abortion should be legal in cases of rape were taken out of context and led to his 'political assassination' and betrayal by GOP allies. Akin lost to Democrat Claire McCaskill. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo, file)
National Interest

Todd Akin is back, and STILL talking about rape

I apologize today for writing later than usual, but I needed time to watch and ponder the nationally televised resurrection of Todd Akin. ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Spotted: 10 Dilworth Details

12 years ago

National Interest

Here’s why Obamacare critics have dialed down the hate

There has been far less Republican talk lately about the so-called Obamacare “train wreck,” and for that we can be thankful. ...

12 years ago

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