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Roughly Speaking podcast: Donald Trump is 'his own worst enemy,' Michael Steele says (episode 140)

Former RNC chairman Michael Steele is "disappointed" in the direction of the GOP, but won't say whether he'll vote for its presidential nominee.

By Dan Rodricks

Aug 23, 2016

• Opinion

Is liberalism exhausted?

The cultural left has disengaged from mainstream political arguments, preferring instead the comforts of identity-politics, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Features

Looking Out: Kristin Beck offers more insight into plan to run for Congress

On Out There with Thomas Roberts, Kristin Beck said she thinks "we need a lot more voices just of the people" in Congress, saying professional politicians like Hoyer "lose touch" when they've been in office for decades.

• Opinion

Former CBS staffer Eric Engberg goes on CNN to rip Bill O'Reilly Falklands claims

Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg followed his blistering Facebook post on Saturday about Bill O'Reilly with an appearance Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

By David Zurawik

Feb 22, 2015

• Maryland

Credibility everything in news

• Opinion

Jon Stewart changed the news while we were watching

Susan Reimer on how Jon Stewart changed the news, unpacking politics and current events for us while exposing pundits and politicians for the naked emperors they were.

By Susan Reimer

Feb 12, 2015

• Opinion

Another snow job

Politicians and their ideological media counterparts use the normal cycles of the seasons to promote "climate change."

• Opinion

Rand Paul is right: Cig taxes factored into Garner's death

Without cigarette taxes, Eric Garner would be alive today, period, writes Jonah Goldberg.

• Opinion

Ferguson too complicated for easy allegory

The national media, on the right and left, has an insatiable desire for story lines so clear-cut they might as well be allegories. The problem is that life isn't allegorical. It's messy.

• Maryland

Stephen Carter: Laws come with deadly consequences

• Opinion

Viewers tune out MSNBC, tune in Fox and CNN on Ferguson

Fox and CNN were the channels most Americans turned to Monday night for coverage of Ferguson.

By David Zurawik

Nov 25, 2014

• Opinion

Tom Schaller: The right systematically manufactures bogus news

As of late last Friday afternoon — when a Republican-led House committee admitted that disgraceful Republicans in Congress wasted two years and millions of taxpayer dollars investigating a Benghazi scandal largely of their own invention — conservatives desperately need to divert America's attention.

By Thomas F. Schaller

Nov 25, 2014

• Opinion

Good riddance to O'Malley

Brown's loss was a complete repudiation of Maryland's governor

• Opinion

From Nate Silver to Jay Carney, more election coverage, less insight

There is more media than ever covering American political life. And with each major election, the coverage seems to get worse ¿ or, at least, more confused and misguided.

By David Zurawik

Nov 5, 2014

• Maryland

Westminster and Finksburg libraries Nov. 5-11

• Sun Investigates

Court ruling upends Maryland's sex offender registry

By Ian Duncan

Nov 1, 2014

• Opinion

Fox swamps liberal media on ideological loyalty, survey finds

When it comes to getting information on politics and government, Fox News has a far greater hold on conservatives than any single media outlet has on liberals.

By David Zurawik

Oct 21, 2014

• Maryland

Carroll officials prepared for Ebola despite low risk

The Hospital and Health Department are prepared for Ebola, however unlikely it might be

• Opinion

You almost feel sorry for Sean Groubert [Commentary]

We are citizens of a country where the fear of black men is downright viral.

• Maryland

Facts in case have yet to be determined [Letter]

• Opinion

Israel's unjust war [Commentary]

One man's "just war" is another's ethnic cleansing. Do the Palestinians have no natural right to defend themselves from the onslaught of Israel's military, from 50 years of occupation, death, poverty and despair? What is to happen to them when Israel's "just war" is over?

• Opinion

Al Jazeera America excels in covering killings of Middle East teens

The grisly discovery Monday of the bodies of three Israeli teens who had been abducted June 12 as they hitchhiked home from a West Bank settlement yeshiva set off a week of mounting violence in the region.

• Politics

Out-of-state groups pump money into attorney general's race

Out-of-state groups are pumping last-minute cash into the Maryland attorney general's race, fueling a barrage of campaign ads including $240,000 in TV commercials purchased by a Florida-based fund that won't reveal its donors.

• Baltimore City Paper

In This Week's City Paper

• Baltimore City Paper

Fear of a free planet: Maryland's passage of transgen-rights bill riles the crazies

• Baltimore City Paper

Al Sharpton on his new book, same-sex marriage, and why he has no regrets

• Baltimore City Paper

Election Night

• Baltimore City Paper

Obama Didn't Miss His Line, but Roberts Did

• Features

Looking Out: Baltimore author releases debut novel about 3 gay friends

• Opinion

Bongino: Sun's left-wing views show why print media are becoming irrelevant [Letter]

Bongino: Sun's left-wing views are making print media irrelevant

• Opinion

CNN's VA scandal coverage reminder of what cable news can be

It was almost like old times last week watching CNN¿s wall-to-wall coverage of the Veterans Affairs scandal story.

• Opinion

UPDATE: PBS tells how NSA shredded our privacy and rights - Part 2 tonight

The thing I love about PBS "Frontline" is its willingness to call out people in power in American life.

• Horse Racing

Kid Cruz owners could be first openly gay couple to win a Triple Crown race

Kid Cruz co-owners Steven Brandt and Ric Boylan wonder: "Would we be the first openly gay couple to win a classic race?"

• Features

Looking Out: Facing challenge to transgender protections, advocates make funding push

The board of directors of the state's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organization has put its money where its mouth is when it comes to raising funds to defend the transgender protections legislation that passed the General Assembly this legislative session.

• Opinion

The real divide on Benghazi is determined by your military service - or lack of it

Despite the sneers of MSNBC hosts and the disdainful manner of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Benghazi matters. And it matters in ways we don't yet even understand -- deep, fractious ways that reveal a major front in the culture war almost no one seems to understand or want to even talk about.

• Opinion

Is there enough left of David Gregory's 'Meet the Press' to save?

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."

• Features

Looking Out: Coalition launches campaign to promote Maryland's new transgender protections

Advocates in Maryland who backed the successful passage of the first statewide legal protections for transgender citizens in housing, employment and public accommodations this legislative session don't consider their work complete.

• Maryland

McDaniel to hold SmartTalk with CIA attorney Wednesday

• Opinion

Taliban documentary shows value of Al Jazeera America

A look at one slice of original and unique content on Al Jazeera America

• Maryland

Michael Zimmer: Respect is something that's earned

• Opinion

Romney was right about Russia [Letter]

Romney was right about Russia

• Opinion

CNN 'Chicagoland' documentary finishes last in overall audience

CNN's pivot to less news-talk and more documentary series in prime time got off to a mixed start with the debut of "Chicagoland" Thursday night.

• Maryland

Michael Zimmer: Winter wonderland wanderings

• Maryland

Michael Zimmer: Downsides to raising minimm wage

• Sports

Saturday's Olympics on TV

• Politics

O'Malley continues on fundraising path to 2016

• Opinion

From 'Salinger' to 'Mitt' and 'Chicagoland,' TV rediscovering documentaries

Documentaries were supposed to be a dying genre -- and living proof that we were becoming dumber as a nation.

• Maryland

John Culleton: Nuclear issues demand attention

• Maryland

Michael Zimmer: Country in need of course correction

• Maryland

Dean Minnich: Sources, at least, are predictable in 2014