Opinion & Essay

What makes an entry in the Philly Fringe Festival fringe-y? The annual festival of cutting-edge and often unusual work opens around the c ...

Last month, after school started, a New Mexico teacher was caught in an audio recording denouncing President Trump in class. “If yo ...

Let’s stick with the story about the Dreamers — the 800,000 young immigrants Trump wants to kick out of the country — because w ...

Area lawmakers in Congress say the children of immigrants covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, s ...

Last year I decided to finally take swimming lessons. I never learned how to swim because I’m black. No that’s completely not ...

Six years ago, when Trump was a blowhard who ran beauty contests, he surfaced on Fox News and talked about the undocumented immigrants wh ...

In India, there is an old saying that doctors are second to god on this earth. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ...

Labor Day – launched in New York City in 1882, legalized as federal holiday in 1894 – was a way to honor the overworked worki ...

Labor Day – launched in New York City in 1882, legalized as federal holiday in 1894 – was a way to honor the overworked worki ...

This year, use that tingle of anticipation for autumn to create an environment in your home that allows your work and your passion to flow.

Is our ability to tolerate Nazism in the United States vis à vis our First Amendment protections really something for which w ...

In states as different as Kansas and Illinois, Republican legislators have recognized reality and retreated from ...

Once upon a distant time — actually, it was only last week — a demagogue stood on a Phoenix stage and titillated his acoloytes by dec ...

A list of Philly Fringe highlights is at the bottom of this article. The Philly ...

Students of color have earned the right to be on any campus they set foot on, and their colleges and universities are better off for having them.