Opinion & Essay

I suppose being young and black in Philly, I experience tremendous beauty mixed with ugliness. I consciously choose to seek out the beaut ...

I’m old enough to remember feminists’ demands for respect from men in the late 1960s and early 1970s because we females were ...

  NBC News’ online tipsheet blared this breathless announcement yesterday: “The best – and most important & ...

The currently enrolled students of the Girard College Upper School have had our futures ripped up from under our feet. We have resol ...

Once in a rare while you hear someone speak, maybe just in conversation, and you know instantly that you’re in the presence of a le ...

A few years ago, a distant cousin contacted me with the news that an ancestor was wounded at Gettysburg — that iconic three-day America ...

When President Obama spoke in May at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., he said tha ...

Did you notice last week that Bill Clinton’s legacy took a bit of a beating? He’s arguably our most popular political ...

What a dumb idea, I thought. It was 1997, and Philadelphia boosters were talking about getting $60 million in federal funds to help build ...

The union meeting at the Wilma Theater in Center City wasn’t your typical one – but then, Actors’ Equity isn’t your t ...