Op-ed

A recent study found that domestic violence cases rose 8.1% nationally after lockdown orders were issued last year.

When wisdom has shown up in my life, it’s been less a body of knowledge and more a way of interacting, less the dropping of secret information, more a way of relating that helped me stumble to my own realizations.

One hundred and fifty years ago this spring, Ulysses Grant and George Boutwell drove to Capitol Hill to seek ways of protecting our democracy. Three months ago, Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Congress to overturn that democracy. It is sobering to think how little has changed, in a century and a half, and how fragile our democracy remains.

While choosing to recount a traumatic violation is a deeply personal decision, speaking up can help shut down sexual assault.

Far from being the transition president he auditioned for in the primaries, Mr. Biden is emerging as a bold progressive in the tradition of both FDR and LBJ. Is Joseph Robinette Biden becoming JBR?

End the fearmongering and misinformation about this bill, which will give more Americans more opportunity to participate in our democracy.

Why is the City Council passing legislation that does not help Baltimoreans, but expands the market for a wealthy venture capitalist’s product?

Corporations can and should bankroll much of what America needs. But they won’t as long as corporations keep bankrolling American politicians.

You know all those “Florida Man” stories? “Florida man arrested for throwing alligator through drive-thru window,” “Florida man learns the hard way he stole laxatives, not opioids,” etc.? Here's the GOP version.

As the CEO of a 2,000-plus person Maryland-based company involved in the COVID-19 response, I have a high tolerance for the obligations that come with it — like spending endless hours trying to explain complicated manufacturing processes to reporters who just learned we existed. But it pains me to watch how this negative attention affects our workforce.

Black lives changed the trajectory of my life before I was born. To understand this, we must look back in history and see that Indians were not in a position to succeed in the U.S. until the 1960s.

One of the most pressing foreign policy challenges facing President Joe Biden is restraining Iran’s nuclear program.

Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to be killed by police and with each death the mental health of the community left behind is harmed.

The first year after the death of someone you’re close to is always the hardest, and it is always a year of firsts. Mine came more than 20 years ago, back when another deadly virus raged.

How often have you heard that our most vulnerable populations are desperately seeking access to the COVID vaccine? Almost never?

Do we really believe the state is one election law away from a system of legal lynchings and separate water fountains?

We seldom discuss the degree to which that primal emotion has driven U.S. history where race and tribe are concerned. And yet, it has always been there.

What policymakers in the Keystone State do — or more importantly, what they do not do — over the next five years will determine not only the fate of many of the commonwealth’s rivers and streams in the Susquehanna and Potomac River Basins, but also the fate of America’s largest estuary.

With a universal electronic medication record, the guesswork can be removed and many of adverse drug events prevented.

What is the quintessential American act? It is the leap of faith. The first European settlers left the comfort of their old countries and migrated to brutal conditions, convinced the future would be better on this continent. Immigrants all crossed oceans or wilderness to someplace they didn’t know, hoping that their children would someday breathe the atmosphere of prosperity and freedom.

As a conservative libertarian who worked in a couple of Republican White Houses back in the day, I find the transition of Caitlyn Jenner to be beyond courageous and, what's more, the former Olympian to be highly qualified for the job.

If you are a white or Black American, nobody questions your Americanness. We Asian Americans wear our ancestral origin on our face.

The team had made me an offer I couldn’t refuse — a chance to throw out a first pitch.

Just like hospitals partner with medical schools, police departments should join with universities to produce innovative research that guides policy and practice.

Baltimore is slated to receive an unprecedented influx of capital.

Mr. Biden is embarking on a huge and long-overdue repair job on the physical and human underpinnings of the nation while managing to keep most of a bitterly divided country with him.

Moving forward, the Canton Anti-Racism Alliance has several initiatives underway, including the placement of a historic marker documenting the names of those whom O’Donnell enslaved.

Babe Ruth's transition from pitcher to hitter during the 1918 Red Sox season was the subject of my grandfather’s dissertation.