In criticizing our decision to begin charging teachers for health benefits and directing the $44 million annual savings to schools, Helen Gym makes an important […]
And in the 2014 Pennsylvania governor’s race, the Philadelphia Inquirer endorses … nobody. Absolutely nobody. Readers on Sunday were instead treated to a list comparing and […]
The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?
Who is standing up for good teachers and poor children in the School District of Philadelphia? If you guessed “the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers,” you’d […]
References to the Almighty God. Mentions of Jesus Christ. Bible verse citations. Heads up about heading into practice. Vague references to “grinding” and/or “putting in […]
I was at home watching cable news when the shooting in Ottawa, Canada broke. What followed was the all-too-familiar routine of wall-to-wall coverage on all […]
For nearly seven years now, Ben Boychuk and I have jousted weekly on the pages of many newspapers across the country. We co-write a syndicated […]
Here is the definitive report on Nick Foles: He doesn’t dazzle you in any aspect of the game. Sometimes he looks really good shooting the […]
The strangest thing about “Real Housewives” — after the fact that we watch it, we watch it so hard — is that the franchise never set up […]
Let’s give this to Daryl Metcalfe: If you wanted to create a religious-right bogeyman that almost perfectly fit the fevered nightmares of liberals, he’d pretty […]
Recently, I visited my brother-in-law at Radnor High School and was privileged to see him teach his ninth-grade English/civics class. When I walked in, his […]
I really didn’t want to visit Majdanek, a former Nazi concentration camp in Lublin, Poland. Like most people, I found Schindler’s List pretty difficult to […]
I committed a grievous etiquette sin last weekend. I pulled a Halloween ghost. Let me explain, and see if you wouldn’t have been tempted to, […]
The Phillymag.com Pop Quiz: Seven simple questions about the week that was. Are you a newser … or a loser?
On the Internet, do we make sure that our passwords contain at least 8 case-sensitive characters and include at least one special character because we […]
