Opinion & Essay

My father, Navy Chief Petty Officer Salvino Paul Tobia was working in a hangar at Pearl Harbor on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, when Japa ...

When the cost of a textbook could feed a family of four for a week.

As our Philly students start a new school year, I know they feel like they have all the time in the world to fulfill their dreams. But I have 3 words for them: Life is short.

John McCain was a Walt Whitman passage come to life: "I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."

Hurricane Lane, which is bearing down on Hawaii, is a reminder of the devastation hurricane season can bring.

Today’s GOP leaders, with few exceptions, meekly follow President Trump.

Put your hands together for the rule of law. That glugging sound you hear is Trump's swamp being drained.

Her entire career was a testimony to the wondrous mixtape of America itself. She stands as a rebuke to cultural police who try to prevent that type of border-crossing.

That time of summer is here…when the stores are filled with school supplies, bus schedules and teacher assignments are announced and ki ...

My youngest brother was a close friend of Kristian Marche, the two-sport star from Imhotep who was shot in the head before he could attend Penn State on a track scholarship.

Christine Hallquist epitomizes the 2018 Democratic zeitgeist.

For all the president’s complaints, he also craves validation from the media.

Franklin's rendition of Respect spelled out what it meant to be black in America, to be a woman in this society, to be beautiful in a world that defined beauty as the polar op

A southern city has now become synonymous with the ongoing scourge of racism in the United States.