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Opinion & Essay

Former FBI Director James Comey and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Susan Walsh and Patrick Semansky AP Photos)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

James Comey’s original sin still resonates

James Comey is currently touring the nation as Donald Trump’s nemesis, which is fine. But if not for Comey’s inexplicable int ...

7 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Where have all the public bathrooms gone?

7 years ago

Police tape blocks off a Waffle House restaurant Sunday, April 22, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. At least four people died after a gunman opened fire at the restaurant early Sunday. (Mark Humphrey/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The ‘well-regulated Militia’ hits the Waffle House

It was just another standard all-American shooting — guy with an AR-15 kills people at a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee — but it ...

7 years ago

Idalmis Garcia Rodriguez in “¡Bienvenidos Blancos!” from Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, at FringeArts.  (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate 3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

‘¡Bienvenidos Blancos!’ — Welcome, White People! — to Cuba, from Team Sunshine

How the history of Cuba and the revolution continues to shape the identities of Cubans and their American kin.

7 years ago

(Rob Tornoe/for WHYY)
First
Politics & Policy

Ban it or not? Gun control opponents want it both ways

Legislators in the First State are still actually working toward passing small but meaningful gun control legislation. That said, things are moving slowly.

7 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden participates in a discussion on bridging political and partisan divides with Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., last month.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Three reasons why Joe Biden should run in 2020

Biden signaled again last Sunday that he's weighing the race.

7 years ago

In this Jan. 29, 2018, file photo, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens speaks in Palmyra, Mo. Attorneys defending Greitens against an invasion-of-privacy charge are raising doubts about the testimony of a woman with whom he had an affair. In a court filing dated Sunday, April 8, 2018, his attorneys say the woman testified she never saw Greitens with a camera or phone on the day he is accused of taking a partially nude photo of her while she was blindfolded and bound. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo, File)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Missouri’s Republican sex scandal is way better than Trump’s

Need a break from Trump? Come with me to Missouri.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

This is how Trump is destroying the Republican Party

The party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass has emerged as the party of intolerance and exclusion in the 21st century.

7 years ago

(G. Victoria/Bigstock)
Speak Easy
Community

In lieu of Starbucks

In Germantown coffee shop, a counterpoint to Rittenhouse Square Starbucks incident

7 years ago

George Soros, a New York hedge fund billionaire and longtime bankroller of liberal political causes.  (Ferdinand Ostrop/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Why are right-wing paranoids so obsessed with George Soros?

It was inevitable that right-wing fans of the Trump-Cohen-Hannity troika would try to slime the federal judge who’s handling the Mi ...

7 years ago

In this March 4, 2016, file photo, Sean Hannity of Fox News arrives in National Harbor, Md. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo, file)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Sean Hannity’s cozy conflict-of-interest hackery

It’s exquisitely delicious that Michael Cohen’s mysterious third client turns out to be Sean Hannity. But the news barely bud ...

7 years ago

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives to address an interactive session on "America, India and Democracy in the 21st Century" in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006. The session was organized by The Aspen Institute India and Confederation of Indian Industry. Also seen background right is President of The Aspen Institute India Tarun Das. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Madeleine Albright: Democrats share blame in the rise of Trump

Madeleine Albright's new book, "Fascism, A Warning," is an eloquent diagnosis of the grassroots ills that threaten democracies and give rise to demagogues like Donald Trump.

7 years ago

Kylie Westerbeck (left) and Kristie Ecke as the daughters of Lydie Breeze in EgoPo Classic Theater's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

‘Madaket Road,’ the last of a robust trilogy, from EgoPo Classic Theater

John Guare's "Lydie Breeze Trilogy," about a Civil War nurse and the men she draws into her life's adventures, comes to an end.

7 years ago

People gather outside a Starbucks on 18th and Spruce streets in Philadelphia to protest Thursday's controversial arrests of two black men at the store. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for WHYY)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Waiting while black

Waiting while black. That’s what I’ll be doing until there’s justice for two black men who were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks while waiting for a friend.

7 years ago

Daryl Boling
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Political leaders must address prolific access to assault weapons

The bottom line is this: The rights of individuals to live free from fear that friends and family might be the next victim of senseless gun violence should be paramount.

7 years ago

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