There’s actually an election in Philadelphia on Tuesday—the Committee of Seventy has a sample ballot in case you want to get informed tonight about the […]
The New York Times reports that Obamacare subsidies are making some health insurance plans essentially free after rebate.
Chris Christie is going to be re-elected as New Jersey’s governor this week, but forget that. Now’s the time to start focusing on his presidential […]
Fresh off the government shutdown,Republicans in the Senate are giving us …another shutdown. This time it’s in miniature: They’re threatening to filibuster one of President […]
Chris Brennan at the Daily News reports that Republicans do not love Pennsylvania’s Republican governor, Tom Corbett. “A Daily News/Franklin & Marshall College Poll released today shows that […]
The Daily Pennsylvanian reports about concerns on Penn campus about Xia Yeliang, a professor at Peking University’s School of Economics who recently lost his contract with that […]
We’d already told you that City Council had passed a resolution calling for Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to be included […]
Even in this era of political cynicism, the brazenness of Republicans’ recent redistricting efforts—especially in Pennsylvania—seemed breathtaking. To demonstrate the absurdity of the revisions, Slate […]
The New York Times reports: “The Internal Revenue Service plans to delay the start of tax-filing season by a week or two because of the […]
Maybe we have more proof that Tom Corbett is a secret socialist! After we pointed out Monday that fast food workers often need food stamps […]
One of the things I hate about ideology—left or right—is how easy one’s worldview about politics can transmute into something lazier, dumber, tribalistic and ultimately […]
The Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has hired a Jewish filmmaker as its new executive director. Jacob Bender, a Jew, is the […]
Is Tom Corbett a socialist? Crazy question, of course, for a Republican governor perhaps best known for suggesting Pennsylvania’s unemployed workers prefer receiving state benefits […]
Camden County Congressman Rob Andrews is having a bad couple of months. In late August, the House Ethics committee announced it was extending its investigation […]
This time last year, Zack Stalberg was preparing for Election Day madness in Philadelphia as head of political watchdog group Committee of Seventy. And the […]
