
Opinion & Essay
Opposition to Temple stadium burns brightly one year on
“It is revolting to me that Temple would rather use their money to gentrify a historically black area than to lift them up,” proclaimed a Temple student.
8 years ago
Satire: A very successful day in the life of a Trump re-education grad
I’ve just returned from Trump Re-education Camp, where I graduated with the highest honors after enjoying a thorough mind-cleanse a ...
8 years ago
Review: ‘How to Use a Knife’ in a chop-chop kitchen (InterAct Theatre Co.)
The terrific new “How to Use a Knife” comes at you like a play on speed, or maybe a play with no speed limit. What’s mo ...
8 years ago
Philadelphia Ethics Board fines former city prisons chief
Former Philadelphia Prisons Commissioner Louis Giorla has agreed to pay the city Ethics Board a $2,000 fine after profiting from a contra ...
8 years ago
Kathy Griffin’s photo: Shock, apology, hypocrisy
For a few fervent hours yesterday, Trump defenders thought they had found a fabulous cause celebre. But ...
8 years ago
Review: ‘Making History’ both by doing and by writing
The colorful historical figure Hugh O’Neill, the chief of an Irish clan as well as the British Earl of Tyrone, would swing both way ...
8 years ago
Greg Gianforte and the need for civic education
Public schools have to teach a better way of behaving in public. Alas, in recent years, there’s very little about preparing them to ...
8 years ago
Trump bridges the partisan divide. Just not ours.
Isn’t it awesome how Donald Trump brings people together, bridges the partisan divide, and inspires political parties to set aside ...
8 years ago
A Memorial Day hero whom Trump will never honor
Memorial Day honors the roughly 670,000 American soliders who have died fighting for freedom abroad. But today we need to add one more ca ...
8 years ago
U.S. incarceration rates too high, too lengthy, too arbitrary
I know not whether laws be right,Or whether laws be wrong,All that we know who lie in jail,Is th ...
8 years ago
Everyone’s talking. Is anyone listening?
A Jew and two Arabs walk into a room. They play beautiful music together, erasing the cultural, political, and religious boundaries that ...
8 years ago
‘People die of stigma. They don’t die from heroin.’
Paul Yabor, 55, an activist in the HIV/AIDs and harm reduction communities who suffered from a substance use disorder himself, died last week Tuesday of a drug overdose.
8 years ago
Putin’s stooge disses Europe and sickens our allies
Joseph Stalin’s ghost took a look at Donald Trump yesterday and chuckled to himself: “I sure wish Truman and Eisenhower had d ...
8 years ago
Review: Hats off (and gloves, and stockings and…) to ‘Gypsy’
Let’s get right to the point: the ending. It’s the final number of “Gypsy,” when Rose — the ultimate stage moth ...
8 years ago
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