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About 160,000 unauthorized immigrants live in the Philadelphia region. Deducing their impact depends on who you ask.

Anyone who has been in any profession other than priestly confessors knows that telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but is more the exception than the rule.

The state of activism in Philadelphia, and indeed throughout the United States and the world, is evolving. Reacting to the fears many mar ...

I was heartened to hear U.S. Rep. Charles Dent, R-Allentown, say he believes in the Second Amendment at his recent Lehigh Valley town hal ...

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks t ...

There were no pitchforks or torches when I attended a public forum earlier this month at Chestnut Hill United Church about how Pennsylvan ...

Adriene McNally received an unwanted gift on her 49th birthday in January: a notice that the federal government had placed a lien on her ...

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

I still support most of what President Trump is doing. But there is one thing on which I'm disagreeing with him. I regret voting against my own interests.

From the cops policing our streets to the judges in our courts, our justice system is one of the most important demonstrations ...

President Trump is committed to eliminating the Waters of the U.S. Rule, which outlines federally protected ...

There is a general consensus in the U.S. that we need to protect ourselves and not allow people who wish us harm to pass through our bord ...

Is the Electoral College a ridiculous relic or an essential element of democracy? Should Congress dismantle it? Do better alternatives exist?

Why is it that on the holiday devoted to thankfulness we eat our least-favorite food? I’m not talking about the “sides” ...

Last week, America promoted Donald Trump from being the boss of a reality TV show to being the boss of the nation. This is a historic fir ...