Opinion & Essay

It’s a symptom of Democrats’ current despair that so many are asking a question that has no answer: Would Hillary Clinton be ...

Texas Governor Rick Perry is said to be clarifying his ...

“I don’t care what your economic status is in life, you don’t have the right to beat somebody’s ass on the street ...

Have you ever seen Louis C. K. or Ricky Gervais in action? Those guys are funny, but they’re not nearly as comedic as the Republica ...

Back from a few days off, I get a lesson in how Harrisburg works from my old friend and columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News, John Ba ...

Will Rick Perry come to play, or will he opt to stay away? The suspense is killing us. What’s most interesting, however, is that th ...

Free at last! Our long national nightmare is over, the debt ceiling is newly raised, and the ideological buffoons who ginned up the self- ...

I talk to Gollum, the freakish creature from the Lord of the Rings films on today’s Fresh Air. Actually, it’s Andy S ...

Imagine this scenario: Your house is surrounded by a mob of fanatics who are intent on blowing it up. Then, at the very last minute, you ...

It’s the strangest thing. A state agency nobody’s ever heard of quietly releases a one-page document last week, and te ...

When Barack Obama bowed to Republican extortion back in December – he agreed to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich; in return, t ...

If you want a ray of hope amid the depressing news about Washington gridlock over the debt ceiling, check out this Frontline ...

Perhaps the most renowned satirists of western civilization – folks like Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, and Joseph Heller – c ...

When I was writing for the Philadelphia Daily News, I always opened my morning copy of the Inquirer with some apprehension, because the o ...

If our self-inflicted fiscal crisis wasn’t so serious, the current intramural Republican bloodletting would be hilarious to behold. ...