Roughly Speaking with Dan Rodricks

Episode 375: Women in Congress: A former member and a candidate, Connie Morella and Allison Galbraith

Women from different generations and parties on the state of politics, plus a book recommendation.

Rodricks: For Baltimore's vacant homes, why not a buyer's club?
Our columnist proposes a "just about awesome" idea for renovating vacant rowhoses 10 at a time.
Rodricks: On taxes and deficits, Andy Harris wants it both ways
Wait, what? Rep. Andy Harris, a big-time supporter of the Trump/Republican tax cuts that are expected to add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt, is now railing against those who refused to support a balanced-budget amendment, because not doing so is — fiscally irresponsible? Take...

Rodricks: Baltimore's arabbers are struggling to keep the tradition alive. Here's how the city can help.
There are bigger and more pressing issues than the one to which I turn again today — the preservation of the arabbers of Baltimore — but few that so well symbolize both the city’s potential for excellence and its tendency to mess things up. It would not take much for City Hall to ensure that the...
An Opening Day for baseball, and for Baltimore
A city that has suffered, but a city that has worn golden crowns, and will again.
Rodricks: Two women who lost loved ones to gun violence in Baltimore establish a scholarship fund
The new scholarship fund will be formally announced with the creation of a GoFundMe page Tuesday. It honors two victims of homicides, Jim Forrester and Victorious Swift.

Rodricks: A Towson mother took a bullet to protect her daughter. Now, she's taking a stand.
You might say that what Andrea Koller did that night in New York, and what she lived to talk about, personifies what thousands of women in red T-shirts have set out to do across the country: Protect their young.
Rodricks: What to make of Baltimore restaurant closings?
What do we make of the closing of Aggio, the contemporary Italian restaurant that the talented celeb-chef Bryan Voltaggio opened in downtown Baltimore just four years ago? That business fell off? That its location, in the Power Plant Live area, was not the best for “fine dining”? That Voltaggio,...
More than guns, WalkoutWednesday is about the future of the country
Young Americans, including those who have been forbidden from doing so by school administrators, have several good reasons to walk out of class on Wednesday and to march on Washington 10 days hence. While getting grownups to do something about gun violence is the prime motivation for these actions,...