
Opinion & Essay
Surge in young voters in Philly dramatically reshaped May primary
A review of Philadelphia’s primary election on May 16 confirms what it seemed we saw on election night: the city’s millennial ...
8 years ago
Each spring, we bring our summer clothes down from the attic. We get reacquainted with the T-shirts and cotton pants that we lived withou ...
8 years ago
Prelude to Comey: A breaking news cornucopia
To properly set the stage for James Comey’s Senate testimony — even the broadcast networks plan to cover his Thursday gig; as Tru ...
8 years ago
Philly GOP chair takes HUD regional job
After leading Philadelphia’s Republican Party for years, Joe DeFelice has taken a post in the Trump administration as a regional ad ...
8 years ago
Rowing has been a path toward leadership, overcoming fear
My morning path to school is the same every day. The streets are lined with trash, broken glass, and aged needles as a reminder of the chaos from the night before.
8 years ago
Satire: A presidential D-Day Tweetstorm
Donald Trump, thumbing in his bathrobe, 73 years ago today: “Ike should quit invasion. S ...
8 years ago
Thousands of Pa. voters disenfranchised?
Thousands of Pennsylvanians who filed voter-registration applications last year may have been unable to vote in the presidential election ...
8 years ago
ListenNew Jersey will soon have a shortage of college students
New Jersey will experience about a 20 percent decline in the number of high school graduates through 2030, according to a recent report, ...
8 years ago
Crazed in a crisis: Trump’s preposterous and panicky tweets
There’s an old saying in politics, “Don’t speak unless you can improve the silence.” Alas, our commander-in-tweet ...
8 years ago
Review: Keeping up the pace with ‘Uncle Vanya’ (Quintessence Theatre Group)
One glib maxim defines the entirety of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”: Life sucks, then you die. Chekhov loads his maste ...
8 years ago
Essay: Bound by bulletin board, a neighborhood on the right ‘tack’
"Former journalist seeks writing partner for regular meetings to share work in progress (short stories, memoir) and constructive critique."
8 years ago
LeBron James response to racism transcends basketball
I worry about our black boys. Not because statistics show they are more likely than their white counterparts to suffer through pov ...
8 years ago
Republican DA candidate in Philly sees an opening against Krasner
After months of hearing Democratic candidates for Philadelphia district attorney talk about fairness for defendants, Republican candidate ...
8 years ago
ListenLet dads father and moms mother
On May 4, 2017, I read an article that I feel devalued and misrepresented the true nature of dads in its title: “ ...
8 years ago
Trump pulls out of Paris, but he can’t cancel the future
Donald Trump has sullied himself, and this nation, by withdrawing from the Paris climate change pact. But, believe it or not, there’ ...
8 years ago
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