I’ll say it right out: I was an early Taylor Swift adopter. I liked her from the first song of hers I heard on the […]

File this one under the Department of Adding Insult to Injury. As if it weren’t bad enough that they were not paying property taxes, 1,700 […]

Thursday’s news that the Big East is splintering apart—something we have known for a while now—left a lot of Temple fans reeling. If the Owls […]

The twice-felled presidential candidate sat down with Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace yesterday, once with his wife, once solo. This is the first time we’ve […]

This is big: A baby born with H.I.V., now two years old, appears to be fully cured. The only other person ever cured was a […]

Saddam Hussein was an evil man. A brutal dictator. A practitioner of genocide. I do not regret that he is dead, nor even the manner […]

Martha Graham Cracker falls on the escalator.

My younger son goes to Temple, where he’s a sophomore. This year he’s living in an apartment with two friends at 19th and Diamond, just […]

There’s always been a certain romance to the American South. But today, there’s a lot more as well: great food, amazing music, even Hollywood luster. […]

If you’re a parent, and you take your kid to play in one of those toddler soccer leagues at Sister Cities Park just off the […]

Franco Harris is running late. I’m sitting in an Italian chain restaurant in Pittsburgh down the street from his office, waiting for arguably the greatest […]

On the day Lisa DiGiovanni found out her sister was going to start hospice care, she couldn’t stop thinking: I am such a jerk. It’d […]

As the train rumbled toward the border crossing, the young woman was terrified. It was a June day in the midst of the Cold War. […]

The appetizer plates were 45 minutes gone from our table when the manager of the Saint James restaurant leaned over our banquette. His gray suit […]

One recent Saturday while reading the Wall Street Journal over coffee, I came upon a couple of editorials that got me boiling. One was about […]