Opinion & Essay

  Happy holiday! Let’s pause to honor the rebels who championed democratic values and put us on the path to independenc ...

The request for detailed voter information from President Donald Trump’s commission investigating vote fraud is going nowhere with ...

The problem with public education is not the children but the adults. It is paramount we deconstruct underpinnings behind partisan gridlock.

Instead of parsing Trump’s twisted weekend tweets, let’s ponder his regime’s creeping authoritarianism. That’s wh ...

As every Baby Boomer knows, as we grow older we face an ever increasing array of ...

Newfoundland was Britain’s oldest colony; in 1949, however, its inhabitants narrowly voted to join Canada, thus becoming the 10th p ...

Candidates and independent spending groups invested more than $6 million this spring in the primaries for Philadelphia district attorney ...

Here’s a question for all the Republicans, Trumpkins, and Fox News hosts who seem sincerely shocked that the pig-in-chief would sto ...

Oscar Wilde gave us all some sage advice when he said, "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams’ sudden guilty plea and resignation Thursday means 88 judges will chose a new district ...

In one fell swoop, now-former Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams has pleaded guilty to bribery, resigned from office, and he is ...

Unlike the path of worship and scripture and virtues, my journey in sexuality has no separate and distinct start and finish. They are the same.

We’re well aware, of course, that the tinpot authoritarian is allergic to the First Amendment. But he has spent much of this week s ...

Designer, engineer, and educator Leah Buechley has spent her career encouraging kids, particularly girls, to experiment creatively with t ...