political dissent

A few dozen protesters marched across downtown Baltimore Saturday airing more than just concerns over the death of Freddie Gray.

By Scott Dance

May 16, 2015

Many of parents brought their children to participate in the protests in Baltimore in the past week to teach their children the power of their voices. Others said they wanted to educate their kids about their rights, and give them a chance to be a part of history.

By Yvonne Wenger

May 2, 2015

The Rev. Jamal Bryant saw in Ferguson protests a modern incarnation of Martin Luther King's legacy.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Jan 18, 2015

As the dust settles on the 2014 mid-term election and the parties analyze why more Americans didn't come out to vote, it's time to recognize that political involvement does not come with an on/off switch. There are lessons to be learned from the example of thousands of citizens in Baltimore and around the country who participate in community-sponsored initiatives to plant trees. Yes, trees.

Police use of military-style gear is rarely appropriate

BANGKOK (AP) ¿ Thailand's military junta will install an interim constitution next month, and elections will be held around October 2015, its leader announced Friday.

New book explores how social media combats the alienation, fear and apathy that suppresses political protest in China, Cuba and Russia

When the winter Olympics gets underway next month in Sochi, Russia, Under Armour's logo will be seen by millions of viewers around the globe as the Baltimore-based brand sponsors two U.S. teams and another from Canada

The nuclear accord reached in Geneva last month has sparked a robust debate in the U.S. and around the world. Was the agreement a major achievement in preventing Tehran from obtaining the nuclear bomb, or does it leave the regime's nuclear apparatus intact? Well, if you ask the ayatollahs, the world has at last recognized their "right" to enrich uranium.

The U.S. has little choice but to respond forcefully to Syria's most recent use of chemical weapons against its citizens

Author Jesse Walker wants readers to become more skeptical of all the narratives that society creates about supposedly dangerous enemies

America's continued support of Egypt's military is strategically and morally untenable after Wednesday's violence that left hundreds dead.

With mass protests in the streets against President Morsi, time is running out for a political solution to the crisis

More than a dozen firefighters in Arizona died this weekend.

Political violence on Friday killed three people, including an American student, and mass rallies are planned for Sunday aimed at unseating Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.

A new book sheds light on the Dwight Eisenhower-Richard Nixon relationship, which was replayed in Nixon's relationship with Spiro T. Agnew.

A recent Johns Hopkins graduate says the protests of Mohamed Morsi's attempted power grab represent not a failure of Egypt's experiment with democracy but a hopeful sign for its eventual success.

As the Occupy movement turns 1, it is not the spirit of the protests but the money of the 1 percent that is animating the presidential campaign.

Agnieszka Holland, director of 'In Darkness,' finds primal emotion in an abyss – as she also did in her episodes of 'The Wire.'

Protesters held signs outside of Anne Arundel county government headquarters Monday, criticizing an embattled county executive indicted this month.

For Occupy Baltimore activists like Jabriera Handy, civil disobedience should be seen as a legitimate form of protest

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

Both the police and protesters deserve credit for the peaceful clearing of Baltimore's Occupy encampment

The strong showing of religious parties in Egypt's recent elections isn't necessarily inimical to the emergence of democracy