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Cal Thomas lists the questions that should have been asked of the Democratic presidential hopefuls.

This is why the media showed the sad, tragic image of a father and his infant daughter drowned trying to get to the American border.

Donald E. Snodderly, a veteran Baltimore County public schools educator, died Friday of heart failure at the Charlestown Retirement Community. He was 87.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jun 19, 2019

Veteran public relations and marketing executive Sandy Hillman joins The Sun's Business and Civic Hall of Fame.

A few past presidents were known for bearing grudges. But all of these men stoutly, steadfastly, defended America and Americans. That can't be said for Trump.

Gov. Larry Hogan has virtually no chance of beating President Donald Trump in the primaries. But "virtually" isn't the same as "absolutely."

Dr. Levy was devoted to fly fishing, the State of Israel and vigorous discussion of sports and politics.

By Jacques Kelly

Apr 11, 2019

Jules Witcover yearns for a time when presidential campaigns didn't kick off until the actual election year.

The charges brought against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are small potatoes, says Cal Thomas.

It's no surprise that at age 77 Bernie Sanders is trying again in 2020. But a significant difference this time around is that he will not be alone peddling his message of "revolution" and moving the party further toward liberal or progressive positions.

Those seeking to cleanse the culture of politically incorrect views might find that the outrage they feel about blackface scandals would pale in comparison to the way the founding fathers actually treated people they deemed inferior. At least a dozen U.S. presidents owned slaves.

The Fred Rogers documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" airs Feb. 9 on HBO and PBS. Its vision of gentleness, peace and love is a contrast to the times in which we live.

By David Zurawik

Feb 1, 2019

President Trump got a taste of the Nancy bPelosi style in their recent Oval Office encounter. He was expecting the San Francisco elitist. He got the Baltimore street fighter. The speaker and her gavel will be Mr. Trump’s worst nightmare.

U.S. foreign policy might benefit if presidents took more intelligence findings with a grain of salt.

As a professor in John Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, Margaret Bright blended social and behavioral science methods into the field of epidemiology.

By Jacques Kelly

Jan 25, 2019

It's looking increasingly likely that Donald Trump will face a primary challenger in the 2020 election, suggests Jonah Goldberg.

Ever since philosopher William James coined the phrase the "moral equivalent of war," American liberalism has been recycling the same basic idea: The country needs to be unified and organized as if we are at war, but not to fight a literal battle.

Supporters of Donald Trump complain, with some legitimacy, that coverage of his presidency focuses more on his personal controversies and the Russia

A planned trip by President Donald Trump to the Broadway East neighborhood in East Baltimore was canceled this week. While a discussion of "opportunity zones" for investment, like Broadway East, will take place at the White House instead, residents say Trump missed an opportunity to see the need.

Today, the networks are ragged ghosts of their former greatness featuring prime-time schedules filled with on-the-cheap game shows and endless reality competitions, culturally-empty reboots of series that spoke to zeitgeists long gone, and news desks mostly anchored by cookie-cutter personalities.

By David Zurawik

Nov 27, 2018

Empathy, defined by Webster, is the ability to identify and understand another’s situation, feelings and motives. Basically, empathy is putting yourself in someone else’s place. Sadly this all-important trait in dealing successfully with people seems to be sorely lacking today.

Jules Witcover: Hubert Humphrey's decision to keep silent about Richard Nixon's wrongdoing cost him the 1968 election.

It's telling that Sean Hannity of Fox "News" is Mr. Trump's idea of a real journalist, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Joseph Davies Tydings, the last Harford County resident to serve in the United States Senate, a confidante of John and Robert Kennedy and a lifelong independent voice for progressive Democrats, died Monday from cancer in Washington, D.C. He was 90.

Joseph D. Tydings, a Maryland lawyer and “Kennedy man” who followed his adoptive father’s footsteps into the U.S. Senate, died Monday of cancer in Washington surrounded by family. He was 90.

Yes, times sure have changed. Cooperation, consensus and compromise have become dirty words. Honesty and integrity seem to have become expendable commodities in our throw-away culture.

Lenwood M. Ivey, who headed Baltimore's Urban Services Agency and worked under four mayors, died of cancer Sept. 19 at Gilchrist Hospice Towson. The Cheswolde resident was 85.

By Jacques Kelly

Sep 28, 2018

Arlene B. Cooper, a retired eligibilty supervisor for the state Department of Social Services, died Sept. 17 from a heart attack at Sinai Hospital. The longtime resident of Northwest Baltimore was 77.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 24, 2018

In September 1964, Westminster bought the Westminster water system for $961,792

Half a century ago in Chicago, the Democratic National Convention nominated Vice President Hubert Humphrey for president. It occurred amid wild protests in the streets and in the convention hall against the Vietnam War, casting a pall over his election chances and the party itself.

If you are like me, your heart is aching because we are about to say goodbye to the summer. It hits even harder this year because we lost so many good days. I am wondering about the things that make me love summer so much, and that makes me curious about where those things got their start.

So many lies, so little time." How should the press cover someone who lies constantly like President Trump? That was one of the questions posed by host Brian Stelter to Carl Bernstein, Margaret Sullivan and David Zurawik on "Reliable Sources" Sunday.

By David Zurawik

Aug 26, 2018

In 1952, Baltimore’s infamous Grammer murder case began when a black Chrysler careened down Taylor Avenue toward Bel Air Road before flipping on its side. G.

bs-ed-op-0820-goldberg-center-20180817. Jonah Goldberg: The political incentive for most politicians isn't to cultivate the center, but to gin up the base.

I'll be honest, some weeks I don’t know if I’m evolving to a higher ethical plane or losing my journalistic religion bit by bit as I struggle to communicate what I see as President Trump’s toxic effects on American media and culture.

By David Zurawik

Aug 16, 2018

In contemplating what messages from 1968 reverberate most profoundly today, I find myself drawn to some brief extemporaneous words spoken by bobby Kennedy on a street corner in Indiana the night of Martin Luther King's murder. 

In 1890, author, journalist, teacher, and historian Gerald W. Johnson was born. From 1926 to 1943, Johnson (above) worked at the Sunpapers. He also wrote more

In 1921, Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and his assistant, Charles Best, succeeded in isolating the hormone insulin at the University of Toronto.

President Trump signaled this week just how important the Sinclair-Tribune deal is for him.

By David Zurawik

Jul 26, 2018

Today, a cacophony of Republicans, Democrats and foreign allies are skewering your kowtowing to evil strongmen worldwide. It’s hard not to believe that Putin doesn’t have you compromised.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to be U.S. Solicitor General; Marshall became the first black jurist appointed to the post.

In 1980, Harborplace opened in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The “festival marketplace” developed by James W. Rouse was part of Mayor Schaefer’s efforts to revive

Have past presidents lied? Yes, but can you name one besides Donald Trump who did it so often and so obviously to serve his own ego?

If you think this country is in impossible turmoil today with a president at war with his own Justice Department and FBI over Russian meddling in our affairs, just look back to where we were a half-century ago.

E. Michael Packenham, former Baltimore Sun book editor whose newspaper career spanned nearly a half-century, died May 9 of a cardiac arrest at Homewood at Plum Creek in Hanover, Pa. he was 85.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

May 15, 2018

Edna O. Harris, a former public schools worker, died April 6 in her sleep at her home in the Park view at Coldspring Apartments in Northwest Baltimore. She was a 104.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

May 4, 2018

The use of FOIA has dramatically increased in the first year of the Trump administration. But government efforts to withhold records and government censorship (known as “redaction”) rose even faster.

Five decades after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for “open housing” and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law, segregation continues to take a financial toll on communities of color at all income levels.

On March 30, 94-year-old Anna Chennault died. What history will remember her for is the pivotal role she played in Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential victory — a role that, if it had been widely known at the time, might have deprived Nixon of the White House.

Jules Witcover looks back on the 'violent shock' of Martin Luther King's 1968 murder, and Robert Kennedy's eloquent words after.