If you truly want to understand why the U.S. Supreme Court dropped the hammer yesterday on affirmative action for kids of color, you need only study this 2016 electoral statistic: 77,744 votes in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. That tiny...
It’s rare for me to waste words on Rick Scott, who sits in the U.S. Senate despite his past tenure as CEO of a health care company that defrauded Medicare and Medicaid so blatantly that the Justice Department won 14 felony convictions. One might wonder how this...
Like every other Philadelphian, I was astounded by the news that the cratered stretch of I-95 would be reopened to traffic in a veritable blink of an eye. How sweet it was to see good government in action. As the state’s new chief executive, Josh Shapiro,...
This summer there are two American narratives. One plot arc features people who get things done, people who actually govern. Yesterday, for instance, the Biden administration announced a multi-billion dollar program to extend broad-band internet to the roughly nine...
Nikki Haley, the microscopically popular presidential candidate, is trying to sell nostalgia to Republican base voters who think it would be awesome to magically turn back the clock to a purportedly idyllic America. Over the weekend, her heart went aflutter about the...
