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• Commentary

Edelman: Administration should take steps, including inducements, to avoid war with Iran

The president said he doesn’t want war with Iran. What steps can he take to avoid one?

• News

University of Maryland awarded $2.3 million grant to document greenhouse gas reductions

The University of Maryland’s Center for Global Sustainability was jointly awarded a $2.3 million grant to evaluate nationwide greenhouse gas reduction efforts

By Lillian Reed

May 24, 2019

• Opinion

Loss of biodiversity is seriously frightening — and counter to God's will

Projected loss over one million species suggests that human existence on earth is imperiled, too.

• Opinion

Md. legislation guards against 'superbugs'

We have to make a choice — allow industrial farms to continue overusing antibiotics as they have for decades or get routine antibiotic use out of our food system. The Maryland legislature has chosen, again, to preserve these drugs and protect public health. Gov. Hogan should make the same choice.

• Opinion

Pompeo discovers melting icecaps, but misses their cause

Secretary of State Pompeo sees melting Arctic icecap as a threat - but not in the most obvious way.

• Opinion

An American mother's view of our militarized border

Arms-locked, we marched over the wet sand, toward the massive border wall topped with concertina wire. Border guards packed with military weapons and gear, stood in a tight formation, blocking our access to the wall. On the other side, refugees press together and watch our movements.

• Opinion

Look to Taiwan on how to address climate change

Taiwan has instituted several successful environmental initiatives that could be an example for other countries.

• Opinion

Catholic Church is ignoring climate change

Missing from the agenda of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops fall meeting in Baltimore is a discussion about climate change.

• Opinion

Maglev between Washington and Baltimore could mean a lot more than a fast trip. It could help save the planet.

We tend to focus on the economic considerations of a proposed magnetic levitation train between Baltimore and Washington. But as part of the recipe for preventing climate change, it could be just as big a game-changer.

• Maryland

Nikki Haley joins a growing list of Trump officials who criticize Trump on their way out the door

She was one of the few Trump administration officials to leave on her own terms and with reputation intact. And yet that hasn't stopped outgoing United Nations

• Opinion

What can one person do to save the planet?

I don't deny the reality of climate change. The recently issued United Nations report predicts a global warming crisis as early as 2040. Yet after finding myself drenched in dread, I pursue a kind of denial that allows people to function. What difference can one person make?

• Opinion

We can do something about climate change

Passing a tougher renewable energy standard in Maryland will help address climate change.

• Opinion

Here's what averting climate catastrophe would mean

The latest report on the climate is as dire as it gets. Yet it at least allows us to imagine what averting catastrophe would entail.

• Opinion

Goldberg: The problem with Trump's 'doctrine of patriotism'

bs-ed-op-1001-goldberg-patriotism-20180928. Jonah Goldberg: Mr. Trump's chief sin in his U.N. address wasn't pandering to voters, but failing to conceal it.

• Opinion

Alternative Fact of the Week: Gubernatorial debate edition

By no means was Maryland's scholarship program for private schools Mike Busch's idea. But that's hardly the only problem with the Larry Hogan-Ben Jealous debate about education.

• Health

A Baltimore teen missed out on her school's Model U.N., but on Tuesday she'll speak at the real thing

Bede Marciari of Homeland in Baltimore, who has psoriatic arthritis, an autoimmune disease, will head to the United Nations in New York to share her story as part of a panel discussion this week on young people who live with noncommunicable diseases.

By Christina Tkacik

Sep 25, 2018

• Politics

With job status in limbo, Rod Rosenstein to meet with Trump

With job status in limbo, Rod Rosenstein to meet with Trump

By Jeff Barker

Sep 24, 2018

• Maryland

Letters: Candidate Johnson has it wrong on Freedom Plan; Kavanaugh's track record

Commissioner candidate Paul Johnson has it backward in his recent letter taking Commissioners Howard and Rothschild to task over the decision to take back the Freedom Plan, writes one reader. Another opines on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's track record of protecting the wealthy.

• Opinion

Trump White House attacks contraception, abortion

The Trump administration is more interested in pleasing its narrow political base than serving the reproductive health care needs of women.

• Opinion

U.S. is now the biggest human rights abuser

We all know the real reason we had to leave the Human Rights Council is that the United States is now the world's biggest human rights abuser, locking up thousands of innocent children in cages.

• Opinion

North Korea shouldn't have nukes — and neither should we

Leaders of our country, Republican and Democrat alike, who demand that the United States accept nothing less from North Korean President Kim Jong-un than his country’s unilateral denuclearization, should consider what gives America – or any country — a right to have these weapons.

• Education

Baltimore school board considering six new charter schools

The Baltimore City school board is considering applications for six new charter schools in the city, including a second location of the Baltimore International Academy.

By Talia Richman

Jun 4, 2018

• Opinion

Gaza deaths demand action

Now is the time for citizens of conscience to stand up for the rights of those killed in Gaza to ensure that their deaths will not have been in vain.

• Maryland

Nobel prize for Trump, Kim no joke

Coral, one of the top British bookmakers, has Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un as favorites — at 2/1 odds — to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year. They're ahead

• Opinion

If the New York Times and Washington Post hate John Bolton, how bad can he be?

If you can judge a man by the enemies he's made, John Bolton is a great one, indeed, Cal Thomas writes.

• Opinion

The most effective U.S. foreign policy: economic development

A foreign policy that centers on fighting poverty, not sending in the military, is most effective.

• Obituaries

Emilita L.H. Poling, ESOL teacher at Patterson High, dies

Emilita L.H. Poling, who taught English for Speakers of Other Languages at Patterson High School, died Feb. 25 from a streptococcus infection at the University of Maryland Medical Center. she was 43.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Mar 5, 2018

• Health

Johns Hopkins gets $50 million from UAE for global stroke center

The United Arab Emirates has gifted Johns Hopkins Medicine $50 million to create a global stroke center to come up with better ways to treat a disease that kills and disables millions of people in both countries.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Feb 1, 2018

• Entertainment

Art museums, in Baltimore and beyond, let the internet pass them by. Now, they're starting to catch on

Most U.S. art museums have made virtually no attempt to engage, let alone serve, a potentially massive online audience. Too often, museums behave as though the internet didn’t exist.

By Mary Carole McCauley

Jan 21, 2018

• Opinion

Jerusalem isn't the cause of violence

Trump's recognition of Jerusalem isn't damaging the peace process, Palestinian propaganda is.

• Baltimore County

Building new lives: Syrian refugees find support, friendship from churches

Catonsville churches are working with Syrian refugee families in the Baltimore area, giving them a local support system to help them overcome the challenges of starting a new life in a foreign country.

By Libby Solomon

Nov 8, 2017

• Opinion

Progress is still possible on climate change — even with Trump in the White House

Donald Trump may ignore climate change but the world (and U.S.) can't afford to.

• Laurel Leader

Tightening Maryland's law to stop underage marriage [Commentary]

According the United Nations Population Fund, one in three girls in developing countries outside of China will probably be married before they are 18. The Marriotts Ridge Girl Up club is devoted to advocating for girls' rights and education.

• Opinion

Nobel Peace Prize: How the U.S. can maintain its moral authority in a world opposed to nuclear weapons

Trump and Kim ramp up their war of words at the world's peril

• Opinion

Melania Trump has something to say. Donald Trump should listen

Melania Trump has something to say. Donald Trump should listen.

By Jules Witcover

Sep 25, 2017

• Opinion

Trump at the UN: The president's finest speech

Donald Trump gave the finest, most forceful speech of his presidency at the UN, Cal Thomas writes.

• Maryland

Zirpoli: Nuclear stalemate with North Korea will keep the peace

Zirpoli: Nuclear stalemate with North Korea will keep the peace

• Maryland

Bombast aside, Trump gave conventional UN speech

Speaking before the United Nations, President Donald Trump gave a conventional speech artfully disguised as a nationalist provocation.

• Features

Garden Q&A: Hover flies

The syrphid fly, commonly known as a flower fly or hover fly, feeds on nectar and pollen, making it a good pollinator.

• Opinion

Who's the madman, Kim or Trump?

President Donald Trump just threatened North Korea with genocide.

• Opinion

Trump at the UN

Donald Trump needs the UN to deal with issues like North Korea. But he's made his own task much harder.

• Opinion

New sanctions on North Korea: Only choice available

U.N. sanctions are a welcome move as a necessary step to address North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

• Opinion

Nuclear weapons treaty offers hope this Hiroshima Day

his Hiroshima Day, 72 years after we dropped the first atomic bomb as a weapon of war, will be different. Just ask Setsuko Thurlow, who was in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

• Features

This Day in History: Jan. 1

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.”

• United Nations

Justice in the Congo

Human suffering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo must be addressed

• Maryland

Letter: Commissioner's connections between privilege, Marxism erroneous

I wish to assist Commissioner Rothschild with his penchant for fallacious reasoning, which has helped him to erroneously conclude a connection between white

• Maryland

Letter: Suburban sprawl unsustainable

I was amused with Commissioner Rothschild's recent opus on Smart Growth policy, but disappointed that he left out two of his favorite conspiracies; Agenda 2

• Opinion

Refugee suspension: 'a shameful betrayal'

If the president, his chief strategist Steve Bannon and others believe we are in a war with Muslims because the Judeo-Christian West is supposedly being invaded and that Muslims are the "enemy," then the new administration's intent in pausing refugee processing is a shameful betrayal of bipartisan commitments we have all made internationally for decades.

• Opinion

Now more than ever, Americans must offer humanitarian aid to outsiders

Now that Donald Trump has assumed office, much of the world's attention is on how the U.S. role will change in terms of engagement in conflicts and crises abroad. Indications are that the Trump administration will be much less interested in offering the largesse of the U.S. to assist those in need, just as worldwide need continues to rise.

• Maryland

Rothschild: Liberals lack moral authority to judge others

In business, I always advise people to avoid doing business with people that are unusually mistrustful. My experience has always been that honest people ten