Opinion & Essay
Change your phone settings so Apple, Google can’t track your movement
Technology companies have been pummeled by revelations about how poorly they protect their customers’ personal information.
7 years ago
Border ‘crisis’ distracts us from the true national emergency
Are we capable of connecting two dots? The fake border crisis distracts us from the true national emergency: A suspected Russian asset sits in the White House.
7 years ago
An open letter to R. Kelly: We hear your accusers
Meet our outrage. Much of the black community is sickened by what we saw in the Lifetime documentary, “Surviving R. Kelly."
7 years ago
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?
7 years ago
The only resolution worth keeping this new year
All the airbags deployed. Every single one of them.
7 years ago
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 ...
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
Congress has no business telling American businesses — or Americans, period — whom they should or shouldn’t boycott, which violates their First Amendment rights.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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.
7 years ago
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