Opinion & Essay
Quote of the week:On Wednesday, when the Wisconsin Republicans turned back the clock 50 years and stripped public unions of their collect
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13 years ago
Potty politics and patriotic philandering
We’d all like to blame somebody else for our problems.
In a couple of interesting cases in the news this week, we have Kentu
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13 years ago
David Broder and the brave new world
It was perversely fitting yesterday that I would be reading a provocative think piece about the “new media” when word came
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13 years ago
David Broder and the brave new world
It was perversely fitting yesterday that I would be reading a provocative think piece about the “new media” when word came
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13 years ago
NPR meltdown, and other matters
Three times a year, I go on the air and beg listeners to contribute to WHYY. As tedious as I’m sure it is to listen to, I don’
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13 years ago
The House Republican hearings on the “radicalization” of the Muslim-American community have been heavily pre-spun before they
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13 years ago
The House Republican hearings on the “radicalization” of the Muslim-American community have been heavily pre-spun before they
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13 years ago
Mark Squilla, the Democratic committeeman endorsed by Philadelphia City Councilman Frank DiCicco to succeed him got some support, and may
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13 years ago
Luckily for Ralph Reed, the once-cherubic face of the religious right, image rehabs are easy in amnesiac America.The ostensible news last
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13 years ago
Philly’s labor boss avoids a fight
In Wisconsin, New Jersey and elsewhere, public employee unions are under attack as governors demand contract concessions or even the elim
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13 years ago
The world would be a better place if the hate peddlers of the Westboro Baptist Church agreed to shut their yaps. But they won’t, so
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13 years ago
Could public housing in Philadelphia actually get worse with a federal takeover?
It’s happened before.
Last Friday th
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13 years ago
Presumed innocent, and pay worthy
Should taxpayers continue paying politicians indicted on corruption charges?
A New Jersey appeals court found that former Perth Am
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13 years ago
One big question for Newt Gingrich, who sorta kinda launched his presidential candidacy yesterday, is whether his roguish zipper history
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13 years ago
One big question for Newt Gingrich, who sorta kinda launched his presidential candidacy yesterday, is whether his roguish zipper history
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13 years ago
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