Opinion & Essay

The last Pennsylvanian elected president was James Buchanan, but former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum appears to be making a run for the Republ ...

I’ll say one thing for the House Republicans: they have guts, moxie, cajones. They act with bold certitude, a trait that i ...

It’s Milton Street, the long-shot, bad-boy candidate for mayor of Philadelphia getting one of two major union endorsements over the ...

  A week after President Obama announced his re-election campaign, we get “Barack Obama’s Legacy of Failure,” a ...

Don’t forget to circle May 5 on your calendar! Fox News is slated to broadcast the first Republican debate of the ’12 preside ...

I’ve been away a few days, and I come back to discover that the Philadelphia firefighters union really is ...

Obama re-election maven David Plouffe was certainly “on message” yesterday. Consider these excerpts, culled from his appearan ...

Mild kudos to NBC News for mopping up its own slop. After first permitting reality TV star/leveraged real-estate huckster Donald Trump to ...

Mild kudos to NBC News for mopping up its own slop. After first permitting reality TV star/leveraged real-estate huckster Donald Trump to ...

It’s been two weeks since I identified 29 candidates for Ph ...

What great fun it is to behold hypocrisy in action. This is one of those times. As the federal crisis grows more dire, with Republicans t ...

I hate to be the one guy sounding a sour note as we trade high-fives over Philly Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey choosing us over Chic ...

New evidence of the reach of Philadelphia’s most politically-powerful labor union is revealed in a fascinating ...

Alleged threats and payoffs, a $100,000 contribution, and a mayoral endorsement – now that’s what I call a lively City Council ra ...

Poor John Boehner. One minute the House Speaker is talking like a grown-up, warning about the political and logistical perils of a federa ...