America is once again talking about a mass shooting—this one at a day spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb west of Milwaukee, where a gunman shot […]

A Philadelphia Police officer who was en route to pick Mayor Nutter up was seriously injured in a car accident near Fairmount Park on Tuesday […]

When I was 16, I went on a high school trip to the then-Soviet Union. The trip was fascinating and horrible all at once, and […]

A surprising gay rights speech

A new study about LGBT parents

Ladies and gay men go gaga

In 2008, Steve Jobs famously predicted, upon its launch, the rapid demise of the Kindle: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, […]

If the first presidential debate was a Romney KO and the second, Obama by unanimous decision, last night’s rubber match had to be scored as […]

Well, Mitt Romney’s foreign policy preferences became a lot more clear during Monday night’s debate, didn’t they? He wants to do exactly what President Obama […]

Body of Autumn Pasquale Found. Authorities say that they’ve tentatively identified a body found inside a recycling container in Clayton, New Jersey as that of […]

On Sunday, FiveThirtyEight blogger and heralded interpreter of poll numbers Nate Silver wrote in “‘Gender Gap’ Near Historic Highs”:

On Monday night at the Kimmel Center, Theatre Philadelphia — the new organization that is picking up where the now defunct Theatre Alliance of Greater […]

Flyers forward Claude Giroux (remember him?) is playing hockey in Germany because the NHL and the NHLPA can’t get their collective act together to save […]

In September of 1796, George Washington told the American people that he wouldn’t serve a third term as president. That gave the country about three […]

Comcast has been crushing it since taking over at NBC. They’ve emerged from the ratings basement, turned a profit on the Olympics, and now their […]