Opinion & Essay
What’s the first thing you would save in an emergency?
When Katheleen Chaney and her son found a packet of love letters among the Jersey Shore’s hurricane debris, she knew she wanted to ...
14 years ago
Famous doppelgangers: Who do you look like?
The story of Temple student Max Galuppo “finding himself” in a 1592 Italian portrait on display at the Philadelphia Museum of ...
14 years ago
The new secessionists: What would Abe Lincoln say?
How perversely ironic: Secession fever has broken out among the election’s sore losers – in the same week that a new Abraham ...
14 years ago
Don’t gamble away Philadelphia’s future with casino frenzy
Turning Philadelphia into the inland version of Atlantic City will do nothing more than create a sister city built on a river instead of ...
14 years ago
Obama won re-election because his voters want “stuff?”
In their attempts to rationalize defeat, denizens of the Republican right have crafted some spin that quickly evaporates wh ...
14 years ago
How about a Super PAC to expose lies?
A few weeks back I interviewed Eugene Kiely of FactCheck.org, and I asked what happened after his organization exposed a TV ad in the pre ...
14 years ago
Republicans, Hispanics, and deja vu politics
Let’s start the week with a pop quiz. Of the 15 most populated states in America, care to guess how many Mitt Romney won? Th ...
14 years ago
Finding community through neighborhood collaboration
Community is built by the seemingly insignificant gestures of ordinary people. A smile and a wave on a rainy day, a helping hand w ...
14 years ago
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