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Opinion & Essay

Notre Dame students walk out during Mike Pence's commencement speech (via MitchellWiggs/youtube)
Speak Easy
Education

Notre Dame commencement protesters chose the wrong time and place

When I heard that a group of disgruntled Notre Dame students marched out of the graduation ceremonies in less-than-silent protest this we ...

8 years ago

 Republican Greg Gianforte (right) welcomes Donald Trump Jr., the president's son, onto the stage at a rally in East Helena, Mont., on May 11. Gianforte, a businessman, is embracing his party's president in his race for the state's open congressional seat.(Bobby Caina Calvan/AP)
National Interest

The perils of asking press questions in Trumplandia

What happened last night in Montana was an apt metaphor for life in Trumplandia, a thuggish place where the Leader tags factual stories a ...

8 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Architect Jeanne Gang on using design to strengthen community

8 years ago

 President Donald Trump addresses U.S. military troops and their families at the Sigonella Naval Air Station, in Sigonella, Italy, Saturday, May 27, 2017. (Luca Bruno/AP Photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Looking to 2018, candidates sprouting this spring

They’re popping up like mushrooms — Democratic candidates for Congress that is, a crop apparently fertilized by the election of D ...

8 years ago

 Former CIA Director John Brennan is sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, prior to testifying before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo)
National Interest

John Brennan charts the path to treason

It’s amazing how the Capitol Hill Republicans continue to beclown themselves in the service of Donald Trump. The more they try to m ...

8 years ago

Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is shown in 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)
National Interest

Team Trump suddenly thinks that taking the Fifth is awesome

I’m old enough to remember when Donald Trump believed that invoking the Fifth Amendment’s right to remain silent was the same ...

8 years ago

 Biographer Gabriel Sherman has written a book about Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, shown in this 2006 photo. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, file)
National Interest

Roger Ailes’ parting gift: Fox News is Trump’s Pravda

When someone dies, it’s good manners to say something nice. But Roger Ailes is truly a challenge. The founder of Fox News, w ...

8 years ago

 Police and protesters clash at Rittenhouse Square after a winding march through Center City in November 2016. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Speak Easy
Community

Making real the racial faith, justice, and hope we talk about

A nightmare showed up to remind me that this is our time for struggle, and my voice is priceless. And silence won't make my dream come true. It has always been now.

8 years ago

 In Theatre Horizon's production of 'White,
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘White,’ or is it black?

Long before “alternative facts” became a concept the White House employs, James Ijames began writing his play “White, ...

8 years ago

Beach replenishment efforts from May 2015 are shown in the borough of Ship Bottom in Ocean County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY, file)
Speak Easy
Lifestyle

The end of the Shore as we know it

The Jersey Shore is in danger, but instead of forcing it to adapt to what we want it to be and what we remember, we should adapt to what it will eventually become.

8 years ago

 The author's father (Image courtesy of Marybeth Gasman)
Speak Easy
Community

The shame of my father’s racism

It took me years to talk about the racism perpetuated by my father in public settings. I was ashamed and embarrassed by him most of my early life.

8 years ago

 Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., followed by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., finishes a news conference at Republican National Committee Headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Ryan said Congress
National Interest

The secret meeting when House Republicans put Russia first

The Trump-Russia scandal news has been hurtling toward us with the force of a runaway 18-wheeler, but one particular gem this week warran ...

8 years ago

 Daryl Tempesta is shown with tape over his mouth in protest in April, in Berkeley, Calif. Demonstrators gathered near the University of California, Berkeley campus amid a strong police presence and rallied to show support for free speech and condemn the views of Ann Coulter and her supporters. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)
Speak Easy
Courts & Law

The good, the bad, and the ugly of free speech

Free speech is easy to support when you like what’s being said, but that’s not how the First Amendment works. This is somethi ...

8 years ago

 On July 15, 2012 off-duty police Officer Marc Brady was struck by a white 2000 Acura near this East Mount Airy intersection. (Brian Hickey/WHYY, file)
The Philadelphia Experiment

Gunshots have come to my neighborhood. There mustn’t be a next time.

The popping sound that echoed outside my bedroom window was painfully familiar. I hadn’t heard that sound in years. But as after ...

8 years ago

 George Soros' $1.45 million was more than one-fourth of all the spending in the Philadelphia district attorney's race. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Most of the cash raised in DA’s race exceeds city donor limits

Of the $5.3 million candidates and political committees spent on Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Philadelphia district attorney, m ...

8 years ago

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