wars and interventions

The press has its faults, but saying it shills for politicians to gain cover for its own is quite a stretch.

Looking out toward the shore of Bush River while traveling on Route 40, just south of Aberdeen, is a community that made history 75 years ago. We used to call it Belcamp; now it is called Riverside.

Obama administration's choice to engage, not escalate, in Syria and Iraq is the only viable response to complex problem

Hours after winning their parties' nominations for governor, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown and businessman Larry Hogan exchanged the first salvos in November's race for governor.

¿Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.¿

Problems that beset Iraq are inevitable part of military withdrawal

The United States Constitution prohibits the president from re-engaging the United States military in Iraq to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) without new congressional authorization. Further, the struggle for sectarian power there is irrelevant to our national security. Without the justification of self-defense, United States intervention would additionally create a precedent that would invite intervention by Russia or China in their neighboring countries.

U.S. should not spend more on bombs for Iraq when local health centers are closing

When historians get around to appraising the start of the new century, what will they say about it? If circumstances continue as they have been, the period may well be deemed a deep black hole in the political life of this country.

A combination of dance and drama brings the Civil War, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, into fresh focus in Liz Lerman's unique 'Healing Wars' at Arena Stage

Baltimore author Karsonya Wise Whitehead transcribes three diaries from 1863-65 kept by a young seamstress

President Obama's decision to send military advisers to Iraq will do nothing to resolve the conflict there and may make matters worse.

Implosion of Iraq latest demonstration that America does a poor job dealing with the rest of the world

Yes, George W. started the war, but dealing with it is the job Obama asked for.

Only history will be able to judge whose foreign policy was worse, the reckless Bush or the feckless Obama.

Baltimore's nearly $2.2 million proposal to reduce violent crime received preliminary approval from the City Council Monday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said.

A tangle of conflicting regional alliances and enmities has left the U.S. with few good options to prevent Iraq from falling apart

The lack of a substantive foreign policy has left us no good options regarding Iraq.

I am not looking to make a big deal out of this, but I thought at least one mainstream media critic ought to point out that CNN plans to air what it's calling a "documentary" about George H.W. Bush Sunday night in two hours of prime time, starting at 9.

Thousands of child migrants from Central America are crossing our southern border fleeing violence, poverty and civil war at home; the U.S. must deal with them humanely

Bring Bergdahl back for court martial

U.S. leaves no soldier behind but legacy in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq not so noble

This president, who's spent much of his time pivoting away from former President George W. Bush's wars, now risks accusations of emulating the earlier efforts of Mr. Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, to expand presidential powers in wartime. Mr. Cheney expounded the theory of "unitary power," which holds that the Constitution gives the president as commander in chief unlimited authority to protect the nation as he sees necessary.

Snowden didn't call himself a hero but he's acted like one

Seventy years ago today, more than 100,000 American, British and Canadian troops landed on a fortified section of French beach as they began what Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called "a great crusade" to liberate France and the rest of occupied Europe from the Germans.

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Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski called on the Obama administration Thursday to turn its attention to two Marylanders who are being detained overseas and argued that the recent release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl raised significant questions for U.S. efforts to bring those men home.

Obama's firing of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki follows a long history of presidential dismissals.

Seventy years after D-Day, some Americans judge harshly, and unfairly, their countrymen who have been damaged by war