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The state Senate voted Thursday to significantly raise taxes on Marylanders earning half a million dollars or more — prompting complaints that liberals were bent on launching class warfare in the state.

Petitions and similar online campaigns represent a huge shift in consumer empowerment.

Christina Lewis Halpern wrestled with whether to write a memoir about growing up with her famous father Reginald Lewis. In an age of Occupy Wall Street, she thought readers wouldn't care about the plight of a poor little rich girl. But to Halpern's surprise, readers are responding to her story.

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If the Chinese were offended by Sen. John McCain's remark regarding Arab Spring, they might just turn the tables

Mitt Romney's disinterest in the "very poor" raises questions about poverty, safety nets and whether Republicans "get" either

Obama capital gains taxes

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Anyone who thinks there's a good alternative to limited government, free market capitalism should take a good, long, hard look at France.

City officials closely monitored the activities of Occupy Baltimore protesters and fielded correspondence from supporters of the movement and downtown businesspeople who wanted it cleared out, according to e-mails obtained by The Baltimore Sun

Doyle McManus: Even conservatives and evangelicals in New Hampshire preferred the man they see as most likely to win

Republican presidential candidates confront Mitt Romney's Bain Capital and the problems posed by unfettered capitalism

The elder Romney took chances and followed his convictions, as a strange episode from the Summer of Love demonstrated

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Normal Lear: Activist and TV producer Norman Lear says the demonstrations of 2011 fit into a noble pattern of progressive protest in America

Jonah Goldberg: Everyone from Charlie Sheen to Occupy Wall Street parlayed failure into something profound

Hundreds of activists are planning to demonstrate outside Fort Meade this weekend in support of Army Private Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, organizers said.

President seeks to embrace the '99%,' but his rhetoric could turn off independents

Baltimore police in riot gear moved in full force but peacefully evicted protesters with the Occupy Baltimore movement from the Inner Harbor's McKeldin Square during the early morning hours Tuesday.

Baltimore joined several other cities from Boston to Los Angeles by sending in the police to disband occupiers who have taken over town squares.

Occupy Wall Street protesters should set up camp on Capitol Hill to discuss insider trading

President Obama's speech in Kansas this week, an echo of Theodore Roosevelt a century before, was his strongest effort yet to connect with the passion driving the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Baltimore Police say a 24-year-old woman was stabbed during a dispute at the Occupy Baltimore encampment at the Inner Harbor

When progressives say they admire China's economic system, what they really like is totalitarianism.