Opinion & Essay

No State of the Union speech would be complete without the ritual salute to designated heroes, so tonight President Obama will cue the cl ...

Today Philadelphia gets a second candidate running for an office she promises to try and abolish. John Kromer is already running for sher ...

In nearly 30 years of reporting in Philadelphia, I’ve known only three City Council presidents, and only one has been a real leader ...

President Obama’s State of the Union speech is not being circulated in advance, but I anticipate that he’ll seek to establish ...

When Tom Corbett ran for governor last year, he dismissed calls that he resign from his post as state attorney general, arguing that he c ...

  Is Ed Rendell headed for a gig at the Brookings Institution in Washington? The Washington bureau of the Allentown Morning Call ...

It was downright weird this week to hear Dick Cheney praise Barack Obama – an occasion long thought to be impossible, roughly akin ...

Should a sanitation worker be banned from posting a lawn sign for his Council member? Should a city tax collector be allowed to so ...

On the hilarity meter, Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes is a distant runnerup to John Boehner on Capitol Hill. Yesterday, as the Republ ...

Picture a pro wrestler in the middle of a ring wearing red shorts with a Harvard “H” on his butt, holding a microphone and bragging a ...

A survey of the nearly non-existent Philadelphia mayor’s race by the startup firm Municipoll shows Mayor Nutter with little to worr ...

The guy who once came within a few hanging chads of becoming vice president of the United States has decided to bow out. Joe Lieberman us ...

In the dark sea of depressing news about health care, Atul Gawande offers a beacon of hope. Gawande is the surgeon and staff write ...

As Ed Rendell leaves the governor’s office, there have been several insightful looks at his eight years – this ...

Courage is generally a scarce commodity on Capitol Hill, but lawmakers are never more timid than in those exceedingly rare instances when ...