It’s a durable article of political lore that people in public office are pretty much like the people who elect them. There’s a fleeting…
Tyranny and anarchy are the twin threats to democracy. Last week, America had tumultuous demonstrations of both — from a manic president who incited…
Sorry, Governor, but “No Labels” is a label. It’s a political variation on the idea of making the pitch by withholding the product. It’s…
This is the way the Trump presidency ends, not with a bang but with chaos, confusion and sleaze – just as it began. President…
Editor’s note: Between now and Jan. 3, we’re re-running 12 great articles that appeared in Maryland Matters in 2020, in chronological order. On Jan….
This is a Christmas greeting, a civic love letter, really, to the workers of the U.S. Postal Service. They delivered 6-year-old granddaughter Eliza’s gift-package…
Many political seasons ago, way back in 1966, members of Baltimore’s Mount Royal Democratic Club, a mainstay of the Second District’s Democratic politics, met…
Inconsistency is Gov. Larry Hogan’s most consistent political trait. On Monday of last week, Hogan published an op-ed in The Washington Examiner, a journal…
Handing off the baton to the next duly elected person in line is often assumed to involve only the bric-a-brac of government. But the…
Political transitions are passages in time. They are supposed to get us from here to there. For the most part, they are orderly affairs,…