Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked ...

Gary Blanton was a young married father living in the state of Washington when, in 2012, Patrick Drum shot him to death for ...

the guilty can’t be picked out of a lineup. There are no poker tells.

“The woods sigh. And then, a thousand miles away,/I’m in your arms again. Your breathing is an ocean./I’m drifting away. You whisper.” Guided by lamplight, I keep the river in my left ear. The path ...

“According to that tried and true statement, ‘wealthier is healthier.’ Free enterprise leads to greater wealth and, thus, to greater health and longevity, ceteris paribus.” “I’m a democratic socialist ...

“Just as [Greg] Dember’s generation inherited modernism and felt a need to rebel, today’s younger generations have inherited postmodernism and no doubt feel the same urge to keep the sense of cultural ...