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Opinion & Essay

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70th anniversary. Hillary Rodham Clinton at Oxford University to honour the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Picture date: Monday October 8, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA Wire/Press Association via AP Images)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

If President Hillary Clinton had stormed out of a meeting …

Alternative news: President Hillary Clinton storms out of a White House meeting after she doesn't get what she wants ...What do we imagine the reaction would be?

6 years ago

Jeff Bogle, the author, enjoying his day off. (Photo Courtesy/Jeff Bogle)
Philly Parenting
Lifestyle

The only resolution worth keeping this new year

All the airbags deployed. Every single one of them.

6 years ago

The North Portico of the White House is seen, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Washington. The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to raise the stakes in the weeklong impasse. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Up against the wall: Trump shuts down reality

Theodore Roosevelt, who died 100 years ago yesterday, famously declared that dissent was a citizen’s duty: “To announce that ...

6 years ago

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who will become speaker of the House on Jan. 3, walks to her new office at the Capitol during a television interview for the NBC Today Show, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. The Republicans will relinquish the majority to House Democrats under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi beginning a new era of divided government. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Message to Trump: ‘The time for accountability has arrived’

Today marks the end of all-Republican rule in Washington, thanks to the tallest blue wave since 1974.

6 years ago

Arden Theatre's cast of
Lifestyle

Enduring lessons from Arden’s ‘Charlotte’s Web’

After I read E. B. White’s children’s classic Charlotte’s Web when I was in third grade, I adamantly decided that I would be a vegetarian.

6 years ago

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photograph at the beginning of a one-on-one meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

This year in scandal: A dirty dozen Trump trivia quiz

The one-trick phony lied an average of 15 times a day, all-Republican rule crashed and burned with a government shutdown, and Brett Kavanaugh really likes beer.

6 years ago

Cyclists cross the South St. Bridge as they ride towards Center City on Bike to Work Day. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY, file)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Safer streets within reach in 2019

Randy LoBasso, policy manager at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, looks forward to 2019 with hope for the safety of Philly streets.

6 years ago

The debate over the boycott, diversity, and sanctions movement against Israel recently reached the floor of Congress. As a partial government shutdown over spending bills loomed, lawmakers added a proposed measure that would prevent American companies from participating in anti-Israel boycotts. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
Politics & Policy

In praise of double negatives

Congress has no business telling American businesses — or Americans, period — whom they should or shouldn’t boycott, which violates their First Amendment rights.

6 years ago

Left: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) 
Right: Rep. Beto O'Rourke (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Bernie versus Beto: Democratic cannibalization begins

The Democrats can screw up their 2020 chances by beating each other to a pulp. And Bernie Sanders' fans are already waging against Beto O'Rourke.

6 years ago

 An Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of the Associated Press in New York. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, file)
Speak Easy
Lifestyle

How we’re cheapening the value of words in the age of exaggeration 

Look for a raft of fresh metaphors when the new Congress is seated in January.

6 years ago

U. S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.,
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Is it possible? Are Republicans finally smelling the Trumpster fire?

Did my ears deceive me? Did I actually hear Pa. Republican senator Pat Toomey rebuke Donald Trump? In so many words, yes. And it's about time.

6 years ago

Wallace Acton as Fagin in Quintessence Theatre Group's production of the musical
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Dark and dreary? Light and peppy? ‘Oliver!’ at Quintessence Theatre Group

The script to the musical isn't so sterling, and the production tries to make it something it's not. So come for the show's well-written music.

6 years ago

45 RPM sleeve for 'Christmas On The Block' - Alan Mann Band (1984). (Image via Flickr Creative Commons, uploaded by Brian of Retroland U.S.A.)
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Seeing what really matters at Christmas

In Philadelphia, there's a very special song that reminds us of what Christmas is really all about.

6 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Feeling all the holiday feels on Olney’s thriving 5th Street corridor

6 years ago

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the President, left, and White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley attend a news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Should there be a TV ban on Kellyanne?

Would the cable shows violate the spirit of the First Amendment if they refuse to book the empress of alternative facts - or would they be performing a public service?

6 years ago

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