Here are some of the things you can learn in The Daring Book for Girls and its sequels: • How to make a geyser out […]
At long last, there’s been a heartening development in the escalating war between anti-“rape culture” activists and due-process advocates. In case you haven’t been following […]
“How many do you have, hon?” the sales associate at the Express in Liberty Place asked me last week. The week before that, a young […]
Villanova is a very good basketball team. You wouldn’t know it from the way they came into the tournament, but the Wildcats are one of […]
A couple of weeks ago, I was interviewing an Inquirer journalist about some bit of newsroom dysfunction — there’s always some bit of newsroom dysfunction […]
Philadelphia, like most cities populated by smartphone users with a little too much time to kill, boasts a thriving Instagram community, and its members are not […]
Bitching about an up-and-coming generation is nothing new. And now it’s Gen Y’s turn to bear the brunt of the complaining. We have been dubbed […]
This week, and by an overwhelming 83% margin, the union representing Philadelphia’s high school principals agreed to enormous pay cuts, a 10-month work year, and […]
Quick question: What’s government for, anyway? There are lots of answers to that question, of course, but for the sake of argument, let’s boil it […]
The latest iteration of FiveThirtyEight, baseball and politics geek Nate Silver’s quantitative journalism site, launched yesterday. And, in an article by Matt Lanza on this […]
Hardliners in Iran are using America’s impotence in dealing with the crisis in the Ukraine as an example of what happens when you give up […]
A few days back, a student at Temple filed a grievance against the university with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office on Civil Rights. The […]
UPDATE [3/20]: Fred Phelps has passed ORIGINAL: I talked to Fred Phelps just once in my career. The Anti-Defamation League in 2000 had released a […]
In the name of all that is good and holy in this world, please do not order an Irish Car Bomb this weekend. For the […]
In the span of 14 weeks, Philly and the world lost two heroes. Edward “Babe” Heffron and William “Wild Bill” Guarnere — World War II […]
