Opinion & Essay

Looks like John Dougherty, head of Philadelphia’s most politically powerful trade union, is inching toward supporting Mayor Nutter ...

Tom Knox says he’ll decide in the next few days whether he’ll run for mayor in the Democratic primary or as an “indepen ...

Sometimes the hypocrisy is so scrumptious, so delicious, that you just want to spritz it with lemon and serve it right up. For inst ...

Sometimes the hypocrisy is so scrumptious, so delicious, that you just want to spritz it with lemon and serve it right up. For inst ...

On the day we learn that a second Pennsylvania State Senator went to the Super Bowl on the dime of an energy company drilling in the Marc ...

By the time Milton Street’s officially kicked his campaign off yesterday at 52nd and Market, there were signs that the novelty of h ...

So federal prosecutors are now handing out grand jury subp ...

Government can’t solve everybody’s problems, but 40,000 struggling Pennsylvanians about to lose the precious lifeline of bare ...

The news isn’t always bad. For instance, (a) the weather is warming up, (b) Gabrielle Giffords is speaking new words every day, and ...

Brett Mandel, darling of progressive Democrats and persistent critic of Mayor Nutter is being courted by Republican leaders as a GOP cand ...

Let’s hope Pennsylvania State Senate President Joe Scarnati proves to be a more effective legislative leader than he is an image ma ...

Policy and politics are typically intertwined. Case in point: President Obama’s 2012 budget blueprint, which foreshadows his 2012 r ...

There’s an old adage in sports that a top-ranked team should be wary of playing a team that has nothing to lose. This comes ...

What’s the first thing you would say to a suspected Al Qaeda member if you had to interrogate him? That’s one of the t ...

By some traditional measures (money, looks, experience), Mitt Romney fits the bill as a ’12 Republican front-runner. But after I he ...