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Robert Koehler: Have you noticed that we're always on the verge of war?

One year later, race relations in this country are just as tense - and white supremacists just as emboldened.

U.S. intelligence findings are not always accurate, or worth taking at immediate face value, says Cal Thomas.

Donald Trump doesn't act in the interests of his supporters, but they don't seem to care.

David Zurawik reflects on some recent media mistakes that don't predict such a happy year ahead for the press.

Sinclair Broadcast Group denied Monday that it gave favorable coverage to Donald Trump's campaign on its local news programs in exchange for access, calling recent reports about its presidential election coverage "misleading" and saying it offered the same opportunities to both major candidates.

President Obama has always seen working with Congress as beneath him, says Jonah Goldberg.

Roger Ailes tenure as the leader of Fox News may be coming to an end, according to a report by Gabriel Sherman of "New York" magazine.

Truth simply does not matter to Donald Trump, who prefers self-promoting fantasies, says David Horsey.

The two leading Democratic candidates running for Maryland's open Senate seat continue to battle over Social Security, using four-year-old ambiguous quotes as weapons in an effort to convince voters that the other candidate isn't committed to the program.

It might be too much to think that progressive activists and intellectuals would demobilize after such a "Mission Accomplished" moment. But a reasonable person might expect social justice warriors to at least take the weekend off to celebrate. But no. Within hours of the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision, Politico ran a call to arms titled "It's Time to Legalize Polygamy."

George Stephanopoulos now has zero credibility on politics. And if ABC News lets its chief anchor and political correspondent anywhere near the 2016 presidential campaign, it will have less than zero credibility or journalistic integrity.

A Maryland woman's simple smartphone app that chronicles major LGBT moments in history has reached a milestone of its own: its one-year anniversary.

A prediction: Hillary Clinton may be running against Rand Paul come 2016

Rick Perry takes on foreign policy and strikes two birds with one stone: President Obama and Sen. Rand Paul.

Most of us are not experts on climate science, but unlike the GOP, most of us have the good sense to listen to those who are.

The problems plaguing the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange have exposed the cheap facade of Mr. O'Malley's presidential pitch: that he is the "data driven," "results oriented" leader who gets things done. In a 2013 Politico article titled "Martin O'Malley wants to be Mr. Fix It," O'Malley said, "we're not arguing for bigger government. We're arguing for more effective government, and also smarter investments."

Netflix confirmed that all 13 episodes of the second season of "House of Cards" will be available for streaming at 3:01 a.m. (ET) on Feb. 14.

In the original, 1990's British version of House of Cards, Francis Urquhart is a conservative ideological extremist who rises through the political ranks by defeating one starry-eyed opponent after another. The American version — the second season of which is set to launch on Netflix Friday — is considerably different. For one thing, the House majority whip Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) may nominally be a blue-dog Democrat from South Carolina, but he is as free of ideology as it's

New Jersey governor's bluntness trumps Maryland governor's evasion when things get embarrassing.

After decades of writing about television and media, this is the year that I have lost journalistic faith in two TV news institutions in which I have long believed: 60 Minutes and CNN.

Feminists are wrong to say that Michelle Obama has not been active in policy. Just because her policy activism has more to do with children — and less to do with abortion rights and birth control access and paycheck fairness — does not mean she has been a retro throwback to the Mamie Eisenhower era

Two LGBT activists were reportedly each fined about $120 for holding a banner reading "Gay propaganda does not exist. People do not become gay, people are born gay" while demonstrating near of a children's library in a coastal Russian city.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act receives bursts of media attentions that punctuate long waiting periods. If you haven't been following closely, here's what you may have missed.

In a public appearance in Baltimore on Thursday, National Security Agency director Keith Alexander forcefully defended surveillance methods that have come under scrutiny this year but acknowledged that some of them may need adjustments.

There's bad journalism, and then, there is bad online, show-biz journalism, which is in a class by itself when it comes to laziness, lack of fact-checking and flatout hack-ocity (I know that's not a word, but it speaks to my anger at the moment).

A poll released Monday shows a firm majority of Americans support a federal law that would protect LGBT employees in their workplaces.

Republican gloating could backfire on them as more people come to appreciate the value of health care reform

Maryland's governor Martin O'Malley said he is laying the framework for a 2016 campaign for president

Baltimore's Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. announced Monday that it is purchasing eight television stations, primarily in the South.

There is no chance Republicans will prevail in attempt to repeal or de-fund the health care law, yet they persist in a politically risky strategy.

Barack Obama once decried the Bush administration's 'false choice' between privacy and security, but he has only expanded on his predecessor's efforts at domestic spying.

Martin O'Malley just wrapped up a remarkably successful legislative session, but he should not let those accomplishments be his last major efforts as Maryland governor.

So much do we fetishize gun ownership that we cannot enact the barest restrictions to protect our children.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is out touting his new book on immigration, and talk of his possible 2016 candidacy is picking up — despite misgivings about a third Bush presidency.

Dennis Rodman is back from a rather foggy Asia visit, Google is remembering a civil rights campaigner, and Mitt Romney wishes he were president. Welcome to your post-weekend online trends report for Monday, March 4.

Leonard Pitts says Republicans' talk of a party makeover should be treated with wariness.

Mary Sanchez says that as long right wing insurgents can attract big bucks, they'll be a force in the GOP

Good morning it's December 7th and, yes, it's still a day that will live in infamy. Seventy-one years later, Pearl Harbor is attracting a fair amount of search traffic on the Internet. Things should pick up photo wise as remembrances get under way in Hawaii later this morning.

Leonard Pitts sees little hope that the flame-throwers of the right will change their ways

President Barack Obama's mandate is for big, pragmatic solutions to the nation's problems, not more partisan warfare.

Baltimore celebrates following Friday's game against the Texas Rangers to secure a spot in the American League Division Series.

Violence must be confronted, but the underlying issues are ripe for continued diplomacy