george soros
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Can Donald Trump recognize anti-Semitism? When he hears it, perhaps, just not when he participates in it. - KKK flyers that have gone up around the state recently spread the same hateful message that apparently prompted a gunman to massacre 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue last month: that Jews are responsible for illegal immigration from Mexico.
- Fear and hate are at the center of the Trump presidency and its Fox News propaganda machine, says Robert Reich.
- Rich and powerful choose sides in Maryland governor's race
- The Open Society Institute-Baltimore marks 20 years for its community fellows program.
- Members of Gov. Larry Hogan's cabinet struck a deal Friday with Hungarian diplomats to ensure classes continue at McDaniel College's Budapest campus after the foreign nation tightened its higher education law.
- McDaniel College found itself entangled in an international dispute between billionaire philanthropist George Soros and the Hungarian prime minister that's threatened its 23-year-old satellite campus in Budapest.
- When Baltimore-based Laureate Education decided to go public last fall, the for-profit university system had just finished a rapid expansion and was preparing to reap the benefits of its newfound global reach. A year later, the company still hasn't listed its stock on the market and has become ensnared in the divisive presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump..
- On the Female Trouble podcast, OSI-Baltimore Director Diana Morris on how she got her start in philanthropy and Baltimore's future.
- Islamic radicalism and America's alt-right have much in common. The two are, primarily, male-dominated political movements that are nostalgic about reviving an outdated and extreme sociopolitical order. Both groups capitalize on the religious and ethnic "othering." And the worst feature they share is the fact that they are growing in their popularity.
- For many outside of Maryland, Deray Mckesson is the best-known candidate running for mayor of Baltimore. But few know him here.
- Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson speaks Thursday in Baltimore
- With the stroke of his pen, billionaire donor puts gun violence and gun control back on the political front burner
- Schools' disciplinary policies have been hijacked by leftists
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- The lives of the Baltimore teens are among the thousands influenced by George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist who decided 15 years ago that the city, with severe crime and poverty and just enough potential, was ripe for an experiment unlike any other. The Open Society Institute field office in Baltimore was designed as a social justice laboratory to keep students engaged in school, confront drug addiction, reduce incarceration and grow an army of advocates.
- Owner Susan Weis-Bohlen says all the food will have at least one of five features: gluten free, vegan, vegetarian, raw or Ayurvedic.
- The main ballot committee supporting same-sex marriage in Maryland has raised $3.2 million and still has $1.2 million in its war chest to defend the law in the Nov. 6 referendum, according to a disclosure filed last night with the State Board of Elections.
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- Robert Reich says the trifecta of immense concentration of wealth, unlimited political contributions and secrecy about who's giving put this country up for sale
- Forget the Romney tax returns, President Obama has far more records hidden
- Democrats' fund-raising practices are nothing to be proud of either
- The liberal elite: Let them pay their fair share too
- Just because news and information comes from a non-profit operation rather than corporately-owned one, that doesn¿t mean it is ideologically-free, disinterested and independent reporting that citizens can automatically trust.
