Opinion & Essay

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 ...

For weeks, Democratic Congressional candidate Bryan Lentz has responded to attacks from Republican Pat Meehan about Lentz’s expense rei ...

  It’s always worth paying attention when Joe Biden speaks, just for nuggets like this. Here he is at an Oct. 27 rally for ...