Opinion & Essay
Abortions rise worldwide when U.S. cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
Researchers have found that the global gag rule has actually made women in sub-Saharan Africa twice as likely to have an abortion.
7 years ago
Bravo! Democrats refuse to reward Fox News’ propaganda
These debates, which begin in June, should be hosted by legitimate journalistic organizations. Fox News, a font of fact-free agitprop, is demonstrably illegitimate.
7 years ago
I watched with interest as Democrats targeted freshman Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar—a Muslim who came to America as a Somalian refugee—as the new face of anti-Semitism.
7 years ago
Could a booster shot of truth help scientists fight the anti-vaccine crisis?
Imagine what might happen if the government itself had embraced an official anti-vaccine policy.
7 years ago
11 things you can do to adjust to losing that 1 hour of sleep this weekend
As clocks march ahead of time on March 10, 2019 and daylight saving time begins, there is a lot of anxiety around losing the hour of sleep and how to adjust to this change.
7 years ago
The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.
7 years ago
Welcome to the Watergate era 2.0
Some Democrats fear that the committee — helmed by Jerry Nadler, thanks to the midterm surge that threw the House Republicans out of power — is playing with fire.
7 years ago
4 things to know about Ash Wednesday
For Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus is commemorated during a season of preparation called Lent. The day that begins the Lenten season is called Ash Wednesday.
7 years ago
First look inside Globe Dye Works’ newest attraction
Globe Dye Works, the former yarn-dyeing factory turned live-work-manufacturing and design space in Frankford continues to write its own history.
7 years ago
EPA’s plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a drop in the bucket
The EPA's announcement is a step in the right direction, but only addresses these two chemicals in drinking water and a new federal standard won’t be implemented for years.
7 years ago
Trump’s ‘frightened world’ of the ‘happily stupid’
Trump begins his re-election bid with 90 percent support from the GOP base (despite his demagoguery, lies, and serial failures), and that blind fealty cannot be underestimated
7 years ago
Analysis: GOP senators struggle to escape no-win border vote
As a deadline for voting looms, it's increasingly clear that Republican senators are deeply uncomfortable with Trump's use of executive power to build the wall.
7 years ago
Cohen’s words were harsh, but in looking back at the first two years of Trump’s presidency, there were glimpses of the traits Cohen described.
7 years ago
Making diversity happen from the classroom to the corner suite
I had believed the hype that students of this millennial generation were “over” the diversity thing … that they believed we were living in a post-racial society.
7 years ago
Michael Cohen’s verbal somersault, ‘I lied, but I’m not a liar,’ translated by a rhetoric expert
Cohen relied on the argumentative strategy of dissociation to carefully separate his actions from his essence and Trump’s actions from Trump’s essence.
7 years ago
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