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Despite some perceptions, Delaware students aren’t lazy millennials

Students at about 20 schools throughout Delaware will walk out of their school simultaneously on Wednesday to protest gun violence at schools around the country.

8 years ago

Ron Reagan, son of late former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan
National Interest
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Ronald Reagan’s son says it best: ‘We the people are the problem’

The late president’s second son nails an incontrovertible truth about our current political sinkhole.

8 years ago

frog prince
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Lifestyle

Some day my prince will not come — and that’s actually fine

I've definitely put myself out there. I'm playing the match game. And? I haven't found him yet.

8 years ago

Adult film star Stormy Daniels, left, signs autographs at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Team Trump braces for more Stormy weather

Nothing reveals Trump's unparalleled sleaze more than the ever-burgeoning Stormy story.

8 years ago

Sometimes a hiker at the edge of the city is reminded of modes of transportation dramatically different from being on foot. (Image courtesy of J.J. Tiziou)
Speak Easy
Lifestyle

Finding joy in accepting, navigating obstacles on annual Philly perimeter trek

Photographer J.J. Tiziou's yearly walk offers life lessons as well as myriad views of the city.

8 years ago

tefillin
Speak Easy
Lifestyle

Bed, Bath, and Beyond blessing

Mitzvahs are acts of kindness or reverence generally thought of as “good deeds," which may benefit individuals or the world at large. I’m way behind on my mitzvah bucket list.

8 years ago

Signs mark a polling site in San Antonio, Texas
National Interest
Politics & Policy

A blue wave may be rising in … Texas?

Even in Texas we're now starting to see the makings of a national blue-wave backlash against the very stable genius.

8 years ago

The 2900 block of Hope Street in North Philadelphia (WHYY, file)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Everyday Philadelphians will tell the stories Hollywood can’t

The Oscars made me realize that no film is more compelling than the drama playing out in the city I’ve long called home.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, sit as they pose for photographers before a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump would love a lifetime presidency. He was just kidding, folks!

Trump’s latest ode to autocracy, mouthed at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, was predictably despicable. The temptation is to simply ignore it. Let's not.

8 years ago

women in engineering
Speak Easy
Education

More girls in the engineering career pipeline makes the world a better place

We are nearing that tipping point where women no longer feel isolated or lonely. We want to make it “normal” for women to choose engineering.

8 years ago

Frances McDormand, Daniel Kaluuya, Daniel Day-Lewis
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

What the Oscar winner for best picture will tell us about 2017

For better or worse, the winners of the Oscar for best picture are a pretty good reflection of the year that was.

8 years ago

Paul Birmingham, on Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, writes on a cross placed in memory of student Gina Montaldo outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Let’s do something about guns before we have to offer more ‘thoughts and prayers’

I'm not a "thoughts and prayers" kind of guy. For all those we’ve lost and all those we can possibly save, let’s do something before we must once again offer our condolences.

8 years ago

School stationery and gun on table in class
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

I would quit teaching before I would carry a gun at school

A student asked if I would carry a gun to school if instructed to do so. “No,” I said, without pause.

8 years ago

Steel coils sit on rail cars leaving the Thyssenkrupp steel factory in Duisburg, Germany
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s new tax: ‘The biggest policy blunder of his presidency’

The biggest blunder of his disastrous pseudo-reign? Wow, that's a high bar. But Trump hurdled it with ease, triggering fire and fury among Republicans.

8 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilmember at Large Al Taubenberger
Speak Easy
Health

Philly Disability Day of Mourning a step toward honoring those killed by caregivers

Philly City Council passed a resolution to recognize a Disability Day of Mourning, a step toward valuing the lives of people with disabilities who are murdered by caregivers.

8 years ago

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