Since I’d want to know, pronto, if my son’s reply to being asked for his homework was, “Suck my dick,” my policy as a teacher […]

Some residents near French Creek State Park in Berks County—and some in Chesco—have been evacuated as firefighters work to contain a 100-acre forest fire. Authorities […]

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Three major news organizations, NBC, ABC and CNN, were forced to “walk back,” as they like to say—as though they’ve merely started a waltz instead […]

Each spring, I join with observers around the world to retell an ancient tale and pose a number of questions.  (No, it’s not the story […]

Last week, you, like lots of reasonable Americans, were probably up in arms at Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus’s tortured analogy that the “war […]

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Rush Limbaugh Is Leaving WPHT. The Philadelphia station will replace his program with Michael Smerconish as it looks like Limbaugh’s show will end up on […]

With Bill Marimow about to begin his third hitch at the Inquirer—his second as editor—the newsroom is abuzz with speculation about how his return will […]

A couple of weeks ago, during a frantic, though futile, effort to catch up with the pile of accruing New Yorker issues on my nightstand, […]

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Governor Corbett had a 51 percent approval rating in December. Less than half a year later, only 39 percent of Pennsylvanians approve of his job […]

A 37-year-old man charged with drugging and sexually abusing boys has decided he wants a jury trial. Louis Spadaccini—a city court clerk and baseball coach […]

A column in a recent issue of the Daily Medium—a satirical newspaper produced by students at Rutgers-New Brunswick—was titled, “What about the good things Hitler […]

Life just got a lot easier for hipsters who post pictures to Facebook. The Mark Zuckerberg empire grew significantly today as Facebook announced its acquisition […]