Jon Baron isn’t the first policy wonk in history to run for governor of Maryland. But he may be the first to come from the especially wonky world of what’s known as evidence-based policy.
When the Republican Party fell apart in 1964 after the smashing defeat of Barry Goldwater, the leftovers recruited a master grass-roots organizer, Ray Bliss,…
In the great game of politics, Democrats, as a party, lack a mean streak. Too often they seem fixated on agendas, searching for the…
I have stared COVID-19 right in the face. I have seen the contagion pass from one person to the next. That’s an apocalyptic way…
More than just a few years ago, the Board of Public works approved the publication of the Public Papers of Spiro T. Agnew as…
Copyright @ 2020 by Frank A. DeFilippo Biographies are tricky. So are their reviews. That’s especially true if one is read and the other…
Gov. Larry Hogan’s recent stay in place order for almost all residents of Maryland during a very uncertain time led me to think about…
In the greedy, gaudy early 1980s, known as the era of “wretched excess,” President Trump – then derisively known as “The Donald” – dispatched…