Opinion & Essay

Many events transpired in my absence last week – President Obama launched a semi sorta military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Republ ...

In an appalling surge of violence, 32 people were shot in Philadelphia last weekend. Six of them ended up in the morgue, including a man ...

News item: Former Philadelphia mayoral candidate Tom Knox has registered as a Democrat, ruling out an independent run for mayor. ...

Will thousands of natural gas wells being drilled shale formations around the country turn out to be a huge bust?That’s the questio ...

Even zealots can straddle like politicians. Case in point, Michele Bachmann.The ...

President Obama will come to the home of Comcast executive vice president David L. Cohen next Thursday for an intimate but deadly-serious ...

In today’s Daily News It’s Our Money columnist Phil Goldsmith makes a compelling case that Philadelphia Schools Superintenden ...

Ask American military commanders tasked to win in Afghanistan, and they’ll make a case that we can prevail, with grit and commitmen ...

As the Pennsylvania legislature considers requiring voters to present photo ID at polling places, a veteran Philadelphia election officia ...

I’m broadcasting today from a coffee shop high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, on the cusp of a much-welcomed vacation. I’ll be ...

President Obama sought yesterday to justify his war in Libya. What a load of bull.Since May 21, he has been violating the War Powers Act ...

It’s always good news when the bigots lose.Some of them have been assailing the federal judge who famously struck down California ...

Grading on a curve, Mitt Romney loomed in last night’s Republican debate as a veritable giant flanked by dwarfs.Good grief, what a ...

Republican underdog Tim Pawlenty declared war on Mitt Romney yesterday by sinking his teeth into the Mittster’s Achilles heel.T-Paw ...

I’ll be away for a week, on a family vacation. Keep your ear out for my interview on Fresh Air with writer Jim Shepard. He h ...