Opinion & Essay

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 ...

Believe it or not, something good happened in Washington the other day. Trump signed a bill that got overwhelming support from both ...

When the School District of Philadelphia has a major problem, poor old Jonah Thompson is surely fidgeting in his grave. And the district ...

Some people even say that if you identify as bisexual, like me, you really shouldn't have any obstacles in finding a partner, because you just have so many options. 

The health care bill in the U.S. Senate is very much like the one in the House, but in one respect it is far worse, thanks to Pennsylvani ...

If you’re wondering why the craven Senate Republicans might vote this week for a bill that would throw 22,000,000 people off their ...

It’s been a few weeks since President Trump put partisan politics ahead of the health of future generations with his announcement t ...

When the news broke last week that Bill Cosby plans to conduct sexual assault seminars this summer social media pages exploded with voice ...

To prevent people from making racially charged comments, should we talk right up front about my husband's race, or do we just hope they'll not be racist all on their own?

The American people deserved to know — early last autumn, before the presidential balloting — that ...

Club toting neanderthals, squatting around a carcass, sniffing and grunting and divvying up property, may have been having the precursor ...

News about Syria stresses geopolitics, so it takes some effort to find an article remidning us that Syria is an actual country with people living there, and dying there. 

The road to transition for the transgender person can be long and hard with many ups and downs. It’s too easy after one or two bruising encounters to tend to assume the worst.

In February 2017, Susan Fowler, an engineer, left her job at Uber and wrote a blog post ...