Opinion & Essay

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.

Join me on a brief traipse down memory lane – three years ago today, on the eve of the ’14 Labor Day weekend – so that ...

It’s an old story, freshened anew by Hurricane Harvey: Republicans profess to hate Big Guvmint as a matter of principle — until c ...

Hurricane Harvey is precisely the extreme “weather event” that climate scientists have long been warning about. But while Tru ...

On Friday night Trump pardoned Joe Apraio, the racist Arizona sheriff whose “pervasive culture of disriminatory bias against Latino ...

As I watched the horrific images of Hurricane Harvey causing catastrophic flooding in Houston, I was moved. I grieved for the five ...

Two weeks ago, we watched in horror as white supremacists rallied around a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. We wish we ...

Any American with an ounce of self-respect should feel personally insulted that Trump lies so brazenly – and that his designated la ...

Nearly three decades after his death, Frank Rizzo is again roiling Philadelphia politics and public opinion. Demands to remove his ...

It might not be the first place you associate with summer in Philadelphia, but the Free Library is an ideal resort: It’s free, clos ...

Donald Trump’s mounting assaults on the free and independent press are enough to make me wax nostalgic for Spiro Agnew. When Nixon& ...

Have we lost the art of good handwriting, an art that indicates patience, care and self-respect? 

My advice is that you refrain from staring at this eclipse of the presidency, lest it permanently singe your spirit. Last night’s P ...