Opinion & Essay
Obama confronts “the global threat of our time”
After four months of silence, President Obama signaled yesterday that he really, really, really does intend to take imminen ...
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Coming into conservatism progressively
Developing a conservative point of view on this and other issues didn’t happen overnight. It occurred in me, if I may borrow a vari ...
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Film recalls Rizzo in all his larger-than-life, divisive dimensions
People of a certain generation know where they were when Kennedy was assassinated. I know where I was when I heard Frank Rizzo had died.< ...
13 years ago
Abortion, the GOP, and the pleasures of the womb
Please make them stop. Yet again, a member of the House Republicans’ loony wing has taken it upon himself to school us in th ...
13 years ago
Review: You’re doin’ fine, ‘Oklahoma!’
There’s no skimping in the big-theater production of “Oklahoma!” that opens this season’s Pennsylvania Shakespear ...
13 years ago
Podcast: Brush up your Shakespeare
Philadelphia’s most produced playwright this season is eloquent and groundbreaking and his themes are universal. He’s ...
13 years ago
Is City Council with Philadelphia schools or against them?
With the doomsday budget here, we have heard a lot about the sorry state of our schools and our gover ...
13 years ago
Letter: With common sense, Pa. budget can save public education statewide
With the deadline to pass the 2013-2014 Pennsylvania budget closing in, it’s critically important to establish a plan that provides ...
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North Carolina: Ground zero for conservative rule
The corporate-funded conservative movement, which lost big in the 2012 presidential election, is nonetheless thriving at the local level& ...
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Letter: Support cyber schools, or Internet learners will be made second-class students
Pat Parris says virtual schools are schools of the future and they provide a level playing field for ...
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