Opinion & Essay

I'd graduated from high school in a small town two hours north of New York City, and had decided that musical theater was my passion. It wasn't.

If there’s a checklist for starting a political campaign, one item would have to be, “Am I qualified to run?” Bu ...

Something about crazy drunk Omar being dead. On a friend’s facebook page. That’s how I got the news last week. That’s one of the ug ...

Sometimes the irony is so thick, you can’t cut it with a laser. House Republicans had long planned to hold a hearing yesterd ...

Jeff Sessions is like the slippery bar of soap you chase around the shower floor. He’s like the mouse you chase in vain as it slips ...

Lucky Terry Brennan – he gets to play not just a fourth grader, but one who celebrates life with abandon. Or, as his teacher Miss Jacks ...

A group of 13 Republican senators are holed up behind closed doors to decide the next steps for the American Health Care Act, the Obamaca ...

The tragic and senseless death of ...

Half a century ago, when China was “Red China,” little children wore red scarfs to ritually honor Dear Leader and wildly sing ...

Before James Comey, there was Preet Bharara. It’s good to be reminded. The former U.S. Attorney for New York’s Souther ...

Philadelphians figured in the two major Tony Awards for excellence on Broadway, presented at Radio City Music Hall in a national broadcas ...

Caustic and funny in equal parts, Taylor Mac’s “Hir” doesn’t bend gender as much as stab it to death with blunt b ...

Future historians will marvel at the Republicans’ willingness to chain themselves to Donald Trump and sink with him to the depths o ...

James Comey’s sworn Senate testimony basically confirms what anyone with a smidgen of mental cognition has known since day one — ...