News I missed while on vacation: A third of Philadelphia public high schools–those with the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases–will welcome students back from […]

Since we’re living in the hottest year ever recorded in U.S. history, it should come as no surprise that Jersey’s temperatures have also never been […]

The most monotonous story of 2012 goes to…the “Fiscal Cliff.” Ever since Barack Obama’s re-election (and the whole Susan Rice thing), the dominant Washington story […]

Over the weekend, Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov left his post (posts?) at CSKA Moscow, for reasons that could either be really interesting or really mundane. […]

Remember the Seinfeld episode where George hires a carpet cleaning service run by a religious cult? (“They call themselves a cult,” he sniffs, when they […]

In a cool new Pennsylvania contest we’ll call “law signing,” Tom Corbett is blowing Eddie Rendell out of the water. In his first legislative session, […]

If watching the ball drop from the warm comfort of your own home just doesn’t cut it for you — and hey, we can all […]

For the past year, the New York Times has been raking the muck out of New Jersey’s troubled system of publicly subsidized, privately-run halfway houses, […]

Fifteen years ago, I began driving from my far-corner-of-Montco home to my job at Philly Mag. For 15 long years, I’ve driven a good stretch […]

Here’s a big problem with the Second Amendment—or, at least, the way we interpret it these days: It presumes that guns are always and everywhere […]

Public service announcement: According to a study flagged by the Washington Post, more pedestrian deaths occur on New Year’s Day than any other time of […]

2012 is the first full year I’ve been using Untappd—the beer app that lets you keep track of what beers you’ve had and where (because […]

From Hurricane Sandy, to MTV’s “Jersey Shore,” to the troubled Revel casino, where Kanye performed this weekend, the Shore has become synonymous with disaster. How […]

Like most house guests who can’t figure out when to leave, Reid is being tossed out of the house.

But you already knew that. Still, for the sake of appearances, let’s go through the motions. After yesterday’s 42-7 loss to the Giants (who still […]