Opinion & Essay

We hear these stories so rarely — and almost never in the asylum seekers’ own voices.

If your head swiveled 360 degrees, Exorcist-style, after learning Friday that a federal judge in Texas had ruled Obamacare unconstitutional, I totally get it.

Anthony Lawton is the storyteller in this recreation of the tale of transformation.

The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's fantasy brings the book's cartoonish — and nasty — characters alive.

“A Sign of the Times” offers a perfect break from the holiday rush: thoughtful but not overly so, nostalgic but timely … and just plain fun.

The White House reality show - starring Individual-1 and The Marvelous Mrs. Pelosi - was a master class in presidential weakness.

Yes, folks, this is an actual provable case of "election fraud" - as opposed to "voter fraud," the imaginary epidemic the GOP routinely conjures out of thin air.

Two graduate students, into their work but aloof from themselves

We can only hope that Donald Trump reads pages 2 and 4 of the addendum to Robert Mueller's new sentencing memo. They're guaranteed to give him night sweats.

As a dark-skinned black woman born into poverty, I know all too well the insidious ways that discrimination plays out in life.

Gratitude to the Philadelphia philanthropist lasts a lifetime.

What Bush did during that 1988 campaign - and what we in the press allowed him to get away with - can't be whitewashed.

Projects like the University City Science Center, Pennovation Center, and the future Schuylkill Yards represent billions of dollars in new investment.

When Galileo was jailed in the 17th century for concluding that the Earth revolves around the sun, he rightly blamed his predicament on & ...

I went to Kensington on Black Friday and saw the devastation of the heroin crisis.