Opinion & Essay
Hillary gets serious, Priebus gets silly
If Hillary Clinton does run for president in 2016, Republicans will need weaponry far more potent than the silly bleatings of Reince Prie ...
13 years ago
Review: Then and now, the lesbians of ‘Cold’
The Bird Hole, a fictional lesbian bar where the entire 90 minutes of the new play “Cold,” is set in a single scene, was once ...
13 years ago
Philadelphia schools, and the 150,000 children they serve, have been systematically victimized by pol ...
13 years ago
Bipartisan sanity in the war on drugs
Every once in a while, arguably more often than the appearance of Haley’s Comet, people on the left and right come together i ...
13 years ago
Hey, grown-ups: There’s no such thing as a ‘birthday week’
“Friday is my birthday!” a 20-something friend announced on Facebook on a recent Monday morning. “That means Tuesday, W ...
13 years ago
Review: ‘The Butler’ is a portrait of a quiet witness to tumultuous history
“Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” a fictionalized version of White House butler Eugene Allen’s life, powerfully mak ...
13 years ago
Trying to lure a 2016 convention to Philly—is it worth it?
Can Philadelphia land the 2016 Democratic presidential convention? Maybe. But here’s another question: Are we sure we want t ...
13 years ago
When a college degree is not enough, Millennials must be entrepreneurs
Nearly three years ago, I got an important lesson in how little control we have over our own success when we put our employment in someon ...
13 years ago
3 parenting rules revisited after Hannah Anderson kidnapping
I was torn when I heard that the weeklong search for 40-year-old James DiMaggio and Hannah Anderson, the 16-year-old he allegedly kidnapp ...
13 years ago
Obama takes a vacation, critics jerk their knees
It happens every August. Tomatoes peak in flavor, gardenias peak in fragrance, and presidents get stupidly abused for going on ...
13 years ago
Former Philly city solicitor mulls bid for mayor
It’s never too early to plan for this party, by which I mean the next Philadelphia mayor’s race. Former City Solicitor ...
13 years ago
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