Opinion & Essay

Joe Biden’s appearance in Philadelphia today is reason enough to revive the Incomprehensible Politician Watch, in which we flag inscrut ...

Next year all 17 members of Philadelphia City Council are up for re-election. Three of them – Joan Krajewski, Marian Tasco, and Preside ...

Long before Fox News, MSNBC, and the Daily Show, Ted Koppel used to bring a rare blend of insight and information to television with ABC& ...

Mayor Nutter could regret not pushing for a clearly-needed change in the city’s campaign finance law if things break just the wrong ...

Philadelphia’s most powerful state legislator could be out of his leadership post in Harrisburg this week.   But as Stat ...

Have you ever been to a dog park and watched the leashless canines circle and sniff each other – sizing each other up, as it were, ...

When I was preparing to interview Michael Caine for Fresh Air a few weeks back, I watched so many of his movies that the little voice in ...

  That bellowing sound you hear is the scream of pain from sacred cows. The co-chairmen of President Obama’s biparti ...

You might recall that in headier days Vince Fumo had a gun range built in the basement of his Spring Garden mansion. Our own Susan ...

How long do you think it will take for the tea-party voters to realize that the Republican talk about “small government” is j ...

It’s Day Two of the Philadelphia mayor’s race, at least to political junkies who start obsessing on the next race immediately ...

“They say President Obama wasn’t born here, call him a Muslim, insult his family….” so read a pre-election mailer ...

After leading Democrats began ...

  Liberals need to understand something about the defeat they suffered: that concerns about the national debt and the growing pow ...

Voter turnout in Philadelphia is a key to Democrats’ hopes in both the Senate and governor’s race Tuesday, and both sides know it. Mu ...