Opinion & Essay

We are using industrial-age statistics to measure information-age output

We are all responsible for standing up for the sanctity of black lives. Because while so many of us are doing great work to sustain black lives, all of us have to do more.

The president and his allies have denounced his critics for criticizing Donald J. Trump.

Consider this my summer book recommendation.

The festival produces the play the way Shakespeare would have, from what we know today.

Reuniting families separated at the U.S. border is only a start.

John Coltrane's vacant house on North 33rd Street is deteriorating but still bears marks of the composer's achievement.

Songs from a half century ago still resound with meaning for a troubled time

The pollsters at Pew recently reported that 68 percent of Americans are suffering from news exhaustion, and that jibes with what I witness on an anecdotal basis.

Editorial cartoonist Rob Tornoe wonders where the anti-immigrant crowd was hundreds of years ago when Native Americans were forced out by European immigrants.

People are quick to point fingers and pass judgment, blaming lack of adult supervision, easy access to guns, a culture of gun violence, socioeconomic factors, etc.

We should identify and support good schools; and we should identify and fix — or close — bad schools.

In its third year, the weeklong Philly Girls Play Chess camp is the creation of ASAP (After School Activities Partnership).

Put together the needs and the assets on either side of the walls of the sacred properties, and you see a whole new necessity – and possibility.