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Presidential candidates must address 'inequality of opportunity,' the core issue that plagues Baltimore and many other urban centers

The question of whether the CIA operatives who used torture techniques should be punished is unlikely to be addressed.

After playing at being a TV correspondent and doing some of the worst on-air network reporting I have seen in 30 years of writing about media, Chelsea Clinton is declaring victory and moving on, she told People magazine.

Believe me, I didn't go looking in my Sunday morning TV viewing for more evidence of what a journalistically bankrupt operation NBC News had become.

Despite a format seemingly designed to produce conflict rather than illumination, Thursday's debate between Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and Del. Heather Mizeur gave a good sense of the Democrats running for governor.

Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown and Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler launched barbed attacks on each other's record and character as they and Del. Heather R. Mizeur met in the Democratic gubernatorial campaign's first televised debate Wednesday night.

Just as life imitates art, the Washington political social world has come to imitate Hollywood. It offers a combination of political and entertainment celebrity "gets" to acquire what passes these days for status for the town where running the country is supposed to be the principal occupation.

A Valentine's Day agreement among the Democrats running for governor to cooperate on setting up debates collapsed Wednesday as his rivals accused front-runner Anthony G. Brown of ducking a third televised encounter.

I had a chance to weigh in on the troubles of "Meet the Press" and its host, David Gregory, today on Howie Kurtz's "Media Buzz."

The first televised debate in the Democratic primary for governor will be May 7, followed by a second debate on June 2, according to the stations that will broadcast them.

The first televised debate in the Democratic primary for governor will be May 7, followed by a second debate on June 2, according to the stations that will broadcast them.

The three Democratic candidates for governor will meet in a televised debate May 7, the NBC station in Washington announced Thursday.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and her security detail made two dozen out-of-state trips in 2013. The mayor's supporters applaud her travel, saying she is representing the city well before groups across the country. But some question whether it's possible to govern as effectively from out of town.

William A. Miller Jr., a seasoned newsman who was the first managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, died Wednesday of heart disease at Gilchrist hospice Care in Towson. He was 88.

Solid political satire from Garry Trudeau makes for impressive Amazon launch.

Remember all the big, high-sounding media talk right after the massacre at Sandy Hook about how maybe now we will have a "national dialogue" about guns?

Author, TV host and veteran wants to move his production company here, and is diving into local charities, volunteer organizations

President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman. But neither development is likely to push Maryland's governor off the national stage.

Jules Witcover laments that propagandistic punditry has largely replaced sober discussion of the nation's affairs

I missed the debut last Sunday of a sorry little 30-minute piece of political propaganda called "Politics Unplugged" -- the product of former governor Bob Ehrlich and his wife, Kendel, buying time Sunday mornings on Baltimore's WMAR. But I caught it this week...

We talk to show hosts and executive producers about O'Malley's TV image and what he brings to the network and cable news talk show table

Maybe CBS News, not ABC, should have taken victory lap on Obama same-sex interview.

O'Malley and Virginia governor debate on "Meet the Press."

Mitt Romney has a lot of work to do if he wants to convince Republican primary voters that he's not a politician.

The storm that dumped inches of water on the state over the weekend included a silver lining of sorts for Maryland's politicians: A chance to show-off leadership styles amid wall-to-wall local television coverage and even national exposure.