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Stop telling us what you’re about to do, and do it. Just don’t put out any more patronizing “overview memos” in the name of transparency; they leave the impression of all-talk-no-action — and that’s the last impression we need when bodies are still falling on sidewalks at a sickening pace. - bs-ed-0924-texas-abortion-rights. Recently, former Baltimore Sun reporter, “The Wire” creator and editorialist-at-heart David Simon announced on Twitter that his newest TV project, a nonfiction miniseries “based on events in Texas” won’t be filmed in the Lone Star State because of its unconstitutional abortion ban. Other companies, and lots of voters, have expressed similar disdain for the law, suggesting such efforts to severely restrict abortion rights in the Lone Star State spell trouble not just for women but for the authoritarian extremists behind the law.
- President Joe Biden’s transformative economic agenda is under threat from centrists in his own party. If his program is stymied, it won’t be the first time a Democratic rebellion has curtailed a president’s big dreams — it also happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt, after his reelection in 1936.
- We should fine all the Members of Congress and the president if they are unable to do the basic parts of their jobs.
- I have been in journalism my entire professional life and I, like many others, have seen a consistent pattern of missing white women and girls receiving outsize coverage when other missing people receive none.
- The question for Democrats is: How do they lure some of these men back without catering to the patriarchy?
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- Gov. Hogan could solve this problem in minutes by allowing federal rent relief funds to be used to give tenants legal counsel in evictions cases.
- I have been in journalism my entire professional life and I, like many others, have seen a consistent pattern of missing white women and girls receiving outsize coverage when other missing people receive none.
- The recent nudge of inflation will help correct past economic wrongs in health care and other portions of the service sector.
- The question for Democrats is: How do they lure some of these men back without catering to the patriarchy?
- Reducing a high homicide rate requires more from elected officials than the usual speeches, it takes meaningful action.
- What a glorious photograph of Lamar Jackson's winning score: Might the topsy-turvy view also speak to his apparent lack of a COVID-19 vaccination?
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- Columnist's criticism of Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson's arm strength seemed designed mostly to stir anger from fans.
- Neither The Sun nor city officials should decide whether anyone is worthy to be honored by a street name no matter their criminal past.
- Gov. Hogan could solve this problem in minutes by allowing federal rent relief funds to be used to give tenants legal counsel in evictions cases.
- Just look at how it’s dispensed: by a “budtender” who rarely, if ever, addresses when, how much or how often to take it.
- What happened this week on Joe Biden's watch is nothing less than an outrage.
- Ideological commitments and rhetorical broadsides tend to obscure the reality that presidents do not have the free hand in foreign policy everyone pretends they do. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
- Given the fine line between religious belief and fanaticism, it's probably best to leave God out of any attempt at civil political discourse.
- Stop telling us what you’re about to do, and do it. Just don’t put out any more patronizing “overview memos” in the name of transparency; they leave the impression of all-talk-no-action — and that’s the last impression we need when bodies are still falling on sidewalks at a sickening pace.
- The media critic has engaged our readers for decades. He will be missed.
- President Joe Biden’s transformative economic agenda is under threat from centrists in his own party. If his program is stymied, it won’t be the first time a Democratic rebellion has curtailed a president’s big dreams — it also happened to Franklin D. Roosevelt, after his reelection in 1936.
