Opinion & Essay

  I wrote here 10 months ago that the federal Defense of Marriage Act – which defines marriage as heterosexual, and den ...

New Jersey and Philadelphia share the distinction of being national leaders in having “pay-to-play” laws, which restrict poli ...

Antonin Scalia held the country’s attention for a few crucial moments on Tuesday morning and asked all of us, not just Ted Olsen, t ...

As evidenced yesterday by their fusty ruminations, the berobed members of the nation’s top court would dearly love to sidestep gay ...

Is Council ready to go along with Mayor Michael Nutter’s property tax reform proposal? It’s too soon to tell, but in a ...

  If the gun reform movement sparked by Newtown ultimately comes to naught, if the denizens of Capitol Hill ultimately do not ...

I’ve missed a lot over the last ten days. What was supposed to be a one-week family trip to Costa Rica went badly two days before w ...

A play is being developed based on the biography of legendary/notorious Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizz ...

  To fully appreciate how seriously the GOP is hampered by the dead weight of the religious right, look no further than yeste ...