Opinion & Essay

It’s the favorite parlor game of Philadelphia politics: handicapping the next mayor’s race. So for entertainment purpo ...

When I heard that the Boy Scouts of America might lift its national ban against gay people, I couldn’t help but recall the time I l ...

The day after it emerged (in this blog) that Philadelphia City Councilman Bill Green had accepted $30,000 from a single donor in 2012, Ci ...

During the first month of 2013, two historic firsts occurred. On Jan. 24, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the end of the militar ...

  President Obama’s death-by-drone strategy is a political winner. Most Democrats are fine with it because Obama is one ...

There I was looking over City Councilman Bill Green’s campaign finance report for 2012, and it practically jumped off the page at m ...

Germaphobes of the world unite. For years now, before it became fashionable, I have had what I would call a healthy anxiety about germs a ...

We interrupt the news cycle to bring you the latest lamentable manifestation of what historian Richard Hofstadter famously called “ ...

Challenger Brett Mandel leads incumbent City Controller Alan Butkovitz in fundraising for the Democratic primary so far, according to cam ...