Opinion & Essay

So much for the rapture. The world is still here, and the roster of Republican presidential candidates is still thinner than the Philadel ...

If you’re a local political junkie, you have to read Miriam Hill and Dylan Purcell’s Sunday Inquirer piece about the politica ...

There’s no need to recap the plot of the Republicans’ top-rated show, This Week in Newt, because we all know it by n ...

There was a lot of talk (some of it by me) about how Tuesday’s primary election in Philadelphia brought a rise in influence for pow ...

The news about Arnold Schwarzenegger brings to mind the aphorism coined by the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus: “Character is ...

Will John Street really run for mayor or City Council? Nope. A mayoral run would amount to too much fundraising, too much time, an ...

When I predicted a scant nine days ago that Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid would be “the most entertaining crash-and-burn o ...

Should Mayor Nutter be embarrassed by the fact that Milton Street, yes Milton friggin Street, got 24 percent of the vote? Nutter ...

  5:20 pm: My tour of polling places shows Stephanie Singer, the insurgent candidate challenging veteran Marge T ...

Whenever somebody decides not to run for president, the announcement text is always the same: (a) America is great, (b) the people of Ame ...

It’s election day in Philadelphia, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of little pieces of paper will be handed to voters en ...

“I’m a businessman, I’m not a politician,” City Council candidate Howard Treatman says in a TV ad he ran early i ...

John Ensign, the family-values fraud who quit his U.S. Senate seat on May 3 just as federal ethics investigators were preparing to expose ...

Tomorrow is primary day in Philadelphia, and high praise is due Alex Kaplan of Common Cause for keeping us up to date on late campaign co ...

To set the stage for today’s topic – Mitt Romney, and his latest bid to defend/explain/finesse his Massachusetts health care ...