Op-ed

The balancing act between health concerns, educational goals and economic realities are clearly weighing heavily on students and higher education in general, according to a new survey by professors at Goucher College and Washington College.

A talk with Colin Byrd, who as a student at the University of Maryland five years ago, was at the center of pushing to change the name of the football stadium so that it no longer honored a segregationist.

A part of racism is the adultification of Black children - when these children are perceived and treated as being much older than they are.

Baltimore’s governance system is broken, but the beauty of democracy is that it is an iterative process and if something doesn’t work we can fix it. One way to do that is to give the City Council more power.

Political parties would once part ways with bad candidates, but partisanship today doesn’t just mean excessive loyalty to a party and its program. It implies a kind of secular faith. And on the right in particular it resembles a Trumpian cult of personality.

On this July 4th, we can turn to the voices of the people who created our country as contemporaries.

While the search for a vaccine to treat COVID-19 continues, scientists are also revisiting many known antiviral drugs, as well as those that are or were previously in development.

The Maryland Department of Health recently announced that expanded telehealth benefits for Marylanders on Medicaid will end on July 25th as the state remains in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic and health care remains as inaccessible as ever for these beneficiaries.

President Donald Trump has one main strategy to win re-election in November: whatever it takes.

University presidents must be careful in our leadership roles to not become so removed from the context in which so many of our students grow up in this country that it results in our becoming presidential relics — rusted and so tethered to a past that we become useless in our leadership roles.

Maryland's state song commemorates the perspective of Marylanders who joined the Confederacy and needs to go.

Coronavirus is keeping many of us awake at night and creating insomniacs. Despite the changes to our daily lives the pandemic has brought, healthy sleep matters more now than ever.

The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated just how difficult it is for immigrants to be afforded the same rights as so-called “natural-born citizens.” These immigrants pay taxes, work full-time, attend school and contribute to their communities, and yet so many are ineligible for the very same stimulus funding keeping their neighbors afloat.

It has been seven years since the Supreme Court disemboweled The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and neither Democrats or Republicans have done much to address the disenfranchisement that resulted.

If Donald Trump is going to defeat Joe Biden he’s going to have to define Joe Biden. It’s not looking good.

Given the events from the last few weeks, I have been reflecting on from where the Baltimore Police Department has come, where we are today and what lies ahead.

Sen. Jill Carter: I will dedicate myself to boycotting Atlas-owned restaurants.

The most depressing thing about the Trump presidency is what it has exposed in others.

America has a racist past, and much has yet to be done, but statues of Columbus should remind us of what is good in America today.

I will never again wish to teach from my living room.

If the state must cut the budget, do it in a way that will not affect working families.

It is inexcusable that a cop misconduct database has not been embraced by law enforcement leaders.

Strategic expansion of AmeriCorps can help a generation weighed down by inequity and illness.

Ms. Mosby has extended a law enforcement veil of secrecy.

The core of America’s identity is not the whiteness of our skin or the uniformity of our ethnicity. It is the ideals we share.

Birmingham's Railroad Park should serve as a model for Baltimore in re-imagining the downtown area for residents, rather than tourists.

A major consequence in the aftermath of the pandemic is that the waiting times for surgeries are bound to get worse.

White Americans are asking hard questions about white privilege and listening to the answers.