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In "The Third Bullet," Stephen Hunter's fictitious super-sniper finds middle ground between conspiracy and lone gunman theories.

As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down.

Jules Witcover says the former Sun reporter wrote perhaps the best book on a presidential campaign

Theatergoers in search of a dark comedy, a light musical or an adventure told in imaginative stage action will find all three in productions now showing at nearby venues.

The former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author died Monday of lung cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 62.

Richard Ben Cramer had the gift of a great writer: an agile mind that generated entertaining books and magazine articles in topics as disparate as Middle East politics and baseball.

Republicans are complaining about the fiscal cliff deal, but the truth is they got what they wanted most -- permanent tax cuts -- for almost everybody.

Joel Brinkley says the GOP spends freely on wasteful projects in Afghanistan but refuses useful stimulus spending at home

"Claudie Hukill," on stage at Venus Theatre on C Street through Dec. 23, is a play about a poor family, struggling to survive hard economic times and personal tragedies in a West Virginia mining town.

Our political system has never been pretty, but it can be effective in the right hands.

With business school plan, Morgan confronts past racism in the most positive way: by building

Lobbyist Grover Norquist issues a fatwah on wavering Republicans in Congress who dare contemplate violating his anti-tax pledge.

The demise of Hostess demonstrates everything that's wrong with labor relations in America.

The Gaza conflict forces Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to pick a side, and it's not ours.

How long will marriage equality be allowed in some states but not others?

Republican dead-enders have to call the Obama coalition un-American; otherwise, they would have to cope with the fact that America rejected them.

Dr. Bertram Wyatt-Brown, an acclaimed and influential professor of American history who wrote widely on Southern history and culture and whose book on honor in the antebellum South was a 1983 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Monday of pulmonary fibrosis at Roland Park Place. He was 80.

Pulitzer Prize-winner will appear at "Facing Race" conference in Baltimore

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The DVD 'Dreams from my Real Father' is just the latest in loony anti-Obama conspiracy

Howard County Briefs

After a successful inaugural three-play season at its Eastport Shopping Center location, Compass Rose Studio Theater opens its second season with Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's acclaimed novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird."

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Even West Coast liberals can't deny it: Romney cleaned Obama's clock.

What would George Romney think of his country club brat of a son?

President Obama gets blamed for the nation's problems, but in a permanently gridlocked Washington, there isn't much he can do about them.

Project celebrates theater's 50th anniversary

Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia dazzles audiences with its production of "The Color Purple."

Far from lazy do-nothings, many in Mitt Romney's 47 percent are people who work hard for not much money -- like cowboys.

With a productivity level near an all-time low, the 112th Congress returns to Washington with an aim of doing the bare minimum to keep the country running.

President Obama is making a gutsy bet that American voters will view his accomplishments in context.

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Can a 21st century nation survive on the policies of William Howard Taft?

Artscentric stages Pulitzer-winning 'Next to Normal' with mostly African American cast.

In a sick bit of symbiosis, the gun lobby's coffers swell every time there's a mass shooting.

People expect what they want when they want it for free, but broadcasting the games costs real money, and NBC deserves to make some of it back.

A Koch-funded scientist has reversed himself on global warming; will the liberals' favorite villains follow?

Watching Mitt Romney travel abroad was almost enough to make you feel sorry for him.