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I hate it when politicians play media critic. But Hillary Clinton gets it right in her book when she warns of a right-wing media build-up shaping politics.

By David Zurawik

Sep 15, 2017

The left and Obama did this for votes no more no less.

The U.S. Department of Justice will not bring charges against Baltimore police officers in connection with the arrest and death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, according to sources.

By Kevin Rector

Sep 13, 2017

Archbishop Lori to celebrate 'Dreamers Mass' in Spanish tonight in Fells Point

By Dan Rodricks

Sep 13, 2017

Zirpoli: Give credit where credit is due

The suggestion that a Congress led by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell will affirm DACA is fanciful.

Attorney General Brian Frosh joins other states in challenging President Trump's termination of DACA.

By Michael Dresser

Sep 11, 2017

The president's recent Democrat-friendly actions aren't a pivot, says Jonah Goldberg. He doesn't know enough to pivot.

Three Democratic senators are pushing legislation Friday to ensure federally funded projects are built to withstand catastrophic flooding.

By John Fritze

Sep 8, 2017

This is a forced opportunity for legislators of both parties to act like adults, working together for the American people, rather than for their own narrow personal or party interests.

President Donald Trump's flat statement that "we love the Dreamers" had a hollow ring, says Jules Witcover.

By Jules Witcover

Sep 8, 2017

Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets Alternative Fact of the Week honors for his contention that DACA spawned a humanitarian crisis.

Presidents do not make laws,they uphold laws passed by Congress.

President Donald Trump took action to strip away protections for roughly 800,000 people brought into the country illegally as children, leaving it to Congress to write a law to resolve their plight.

If we are going to spend billions of dollars on new roads and bridges, we should build them smarter and stronger, and build them to withstand the reality of climate change.

Comparing Trump to Hitler is an unnecessarily inflammatory way to describe a mistake by voters.

President Donald Trump punted on protecting immigrant dreamers, and now Congress is poised to abandon them.

If I could get educators to adopt one resolution for the new school year, it would be: Innovate less and execute more

Donald Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio is a far cry from those granted by Presidents Clinton and Obama, says Cal Thomas.

Trump-onomics or how to pretend that cutting corporate tax rates helps the little guy.

Sheriff Arpaio might never have been put into such a position, had the government strictly enforced immigration law that was incidentally signed into law by Bill Clinton.

The Baltimore-born author Ta-Nehisi Coates will release his third book, "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" in October.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Aug 30, 2017

Harvey, Donald Trump, flood insurance, zoning

Our economy has been growing at a disappointing two percent, but to blame that on too much regulation is not supported by the facts.

Business leaders must focus. on more than just business.

Real crises demand real governing, but Trump has left key jobs unfilled at State Dept, other agencies

Business leaders can help themselves and their country by active involvement in presidential panels, and citizens need to stand back, show our support and leave our political views for the ballot bo

There may be a case for sending more troops to Afghanistan but Trump hasn't made it.

Trump's election signaled to many that it was acceptable at last to openly display their deadly animosity. It is now out in the open, and we as a nation must realize that, if we are to survive as the multi cultural nation we have become, we must confront and find means of resolving this situation

The Republican Party needs to acknowledge their dysfunction, they need to own it and fix it, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Our first black president ignored poor city blacks as both the murder rate and unemployment soared. In contrast, Mr. Trump has been keeping his word on jobs and attempting to put forth his agenda to help all of us all while being blocked by Democrats, Republicans and haters.

With a Republican president and a Republican Congress, raising the debt ceiling should be no big deal. But what about this Republican president and this Republican Congress?

Another Democrat is joining Maryland’s gubernatorial race, former State Department official Krish Vignarajah of Montgomery County.

By Pamela Wood

Aug 9, 2017

When Colin Kaepernick didn't stand for the national anthem before a preseason game last summer, perhaps he knew he was lighting a powder keg that would still burn a year later. Perhaps not.

By Childs Walker

Aug 4, 2017

Donald Trump wants his base to become increasingly angry and politically mobilized so that it will continue to exert an outsized influence on the Republican Party.

Donald Trump's gross behavior is teaching a generation how not to behave.

Robert Reich chronicles a dozen ways in which President Trump has let down supporters.

Civil rights leaders from Congress presented their legislative priorities Monday at the convention that has brought thousands of NAACP members from around the country to Baltimore.

By Tim Prudente

Jul 24, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump has declined an invitation to speak at the NAACP's annual convention next week in Baltimore.

Winning at all costs is the only thing that's standard in Trumpworld, says Robert B. Reich.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has closed a complaint alleging that Maryland officials discriminated against African Americans when they canceled a light-rail line in Baltimore.

By John Fritze

Jul 14, 2017

Two Highlandtown men — neither of whom had a criminal record — have been released from the Frederick County Detention Center and reunited with their friends and family after advocacy lawyers succeeded in arguing their cases before immigration judges.

By Luke Broadwater

Jul 13, 2017

Chris Christie’s bright political future has dimmed, in part from the same obtuse insensitivity to appearances that plagues the president.

By Jules Witcover

Jul 10, 2017

On the occasion of its 241st birthday, the "United" States was anything but, says Leonard Pitts. In some ways secession has occurred.

Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group is finding out how harsh the national spotlight can be as it gets ripped for what's seen as a conservative bias.

By David Zurawik

Jul 7, 2017

Might other countries hacked the U.S. election? Trump throws it out there.

Here is the core problem with the Senate Republican health care plan: it is all about politics, not health care, says David Horsey.

Administrators have begun to overhaul Mary E. Rodman and five other city schools, an undertaking funded by a billion-dollar federal program to transform the nation's failing schools.

By Tim Prudente

Jul 4, 2017

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is threatening to work with Democrats on health care? That's rich.

I think the flawed Republican health-care plan is very much open to criticism, from the left and the right, but this rhetoric is repugnant and dangerously stupid.