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For years, the tobacco industry paid actors to pretend they were doctors on TV, telling Americans that smoking wasn’t bad for their health. By…
Much to the dismay of the state’s Democratic establishment, Comptroller Peter Franchot appears to be planning a run for governor. (Disclosure: Franchot is a…
Despite the sweltering heat, there’s much to celebrate when you step outside in Maryland this summer. Bald eagles, osprey, and blue heron once on…
There’s an important anniversary on Aug. 15 that’s worth nearly a trillion dollars. When David J. Lewis, Republican turned Democrat, congressman from Western Maryland,…
While the nation mourns the victims of three mass murders in the space of a week and ponders the extent to which Donald J….
One year from now the Democratic Party will select its presidential nominee to run against Donald Trump, an incumbent president who is widely reviled…
You’re Brandon Scott. After 6 ½ years on the Baltimore City Council, you’ve recently become Council president, following the resignation of scandal-plague mayor Catherine…
Recently, Comptroller Peter Franchot and others have argued for single-member districts for the House of Delegates in Maryland. This would be a grave mistake. Single-member…
If you’re human and not numbed by the horrifying repetition, each mass shooting stirs some measure of outrage and empathy. If the mass shooting…
In the greedy, gaudy early 1980s, known as the era of “wretched excess,” President Trump – then derisively known as “The Donald” – dispatched…