Opinion & Essay

The GOP, which once prided itself as the party of high moral character, keeps sinking lower.

A Marine sets out on a mission to recover antiquities in Iraq. A ghostwriter has her own ideas about the details.

Donald Trump has dumped all his macho stump rhetoric about China and morphed into a wimp.

Aliens have invaded her, one sister tells another in a beguiling world-premiere play.

To fully understand what happened last night in Virginia, to best gauge the titanic blue wave that trounced Trumpism and gave us hope, we need only look at the numbers.

This off-off-year election could have a major impact in Philadelphia and one suburban county.

A new musical by Philadelphia native Colman Domingo is set in the ‘50s and examines issues of race through the iconic character of Nat King Cole.

We should not be voting for judges. The partisan process taints the impartiality so critical to the bench, and diminishes public confidence in the court system.

If Democrats lose tonight’s Virginia gubernatorial contest, then they deserve to join the Whigs in history’s dustbin. But Democrats being Democrats, they may well blow it.

Knowing the history of voting rights for black people and and women, and voter suppression currently in effect around the country, motivates me to still push some buttons.

Family history repeats itself in a play by one of Ireland's current leading playwrights.

In the wake of the latest mass shooting, Trump has weighed in. And once again, he has proved himself useless.

I am at once relieved that the Kenney administration made the right decision, and grieved that removing a symbol of brutality does not change the substance of this moment.

Leave it to Trump to gum up the federal court machinery in the case of alleged rent-a-truck terrorist Sayfullo Saipov with his toxic mix of authoritarianism and ignorance.

When we host, we have the routine down. But we do have some pressing questions