Friday Talking Points [84] -- The Rockets' Red Glare, The Bombs Bursting In Air
What separates humans from animals can be summed up as one simple thing -- the mastery of fire. Even "using tools" doesn't cut it anymore, as apes ha...
What separates humans from animals can be summed up as one simple thing -- the mastery of fire. Even "using tools" doesn't cut it anymore, as apes ha...
AllAboutElectric | AllCarsElectric | Posted 06.23.2009 | Home
You know the revolution has truly taken hold when one of the world's largest oil companies decides to launch its own electric car program. An today...
Timothy Cooper | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media
Men II Boys is a new film that featuring interviews from BET journalist Jeff Johnson, Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Baltimore Ravens Tight End, Daniel Wilcox.
The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.21.2009 | Home
BALTIMORE—By becoming the first filly to win the Preakness Stakes in 85 years, thoroughbred Rachel Alexandra inspired millions of women Saturday...
The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.11.2009 | Home
BALTIMORE--A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found a link between the consumption of dog urine and the decreased likelihood of he...
AP | BEN GREENE | Posted 04.28.2009 | Home
BALTIMORE — A massive water main break shut down the heart of downtown Baltimore on Tuesday, sending thousands of workers home or to other offic...
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 04.21.2009 | Home
There's a nifty new wireless video technology on the horizon, and its best feature is its price: free. A group of broadcasters and electronics compani...
Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
I've asked Marylanders to urge their state senators to end capital punishment in our state. I believe we will fail our children and ourselves if we allow these executions to continue.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
On Wednesday I wrote a piece on Huffington Post and another at Open Left talking about the centrality of fixing the foreclosure crisis to any recovery...
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 02.13.2009 | Entertainment
Instead of imaginative prosecutors stretching the law to go after stupid lies in hotel rooms, baseball should take strong, decisive, and immediate action to clean up the game.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
Four families every minute enter the foreclosure process. It is no wonder that ACORN members are fighting back in the face of the economic maelstrom engulfing the country.
AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 01.29.2009 | Media
BALTIMORE — Less than three years after its launch as the city's second daily newspaper, The Baltimore Examiner is shutting down, a victim of sl...
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
This is the nub of it for me with the Lefties: they do not truly understand who they are, nor what they are motivated by. The slightest bump in the road leads to anarchy or dissent.
AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
BALTIMORE — Mayor Sheila Dixon was indicted Friday on charges that she accepted illegal gifts during her time as mayor and City Council presiden...
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
For too many years Americans have fought against things: communism, drugs, poverty. Isn't it time to fight for something?
Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 10.22.2008 | Media
Watching Palin sit through the SNL skit, it amazed me how politics and Hip Hop have established some sort of weird intertextuality.
Stefanie Michaels | Posted 10.10.2008 | Green
Hotels are looking for new ways to run more efficiently and looking to nature to give them some ideas. The latest in green technology is allowing hote...
John Terzano | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home
Police crime labs in both Detroit and Baltimore have recently come under fire for shocking errors discovered in the testing, analysis, and use of forensic evidence.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics
Last week, The New York Times's David Streitfeld told the story of one JR Paterakis, a Baltimore "baker" who opposes the Conservation Reserve Program ...
Alison Stein Wellner | Posted 03.29.2008 | Living
I visited Baltimore on Thursday, and checked out Mount Vernon Place. It's a historic area of the city, with four rectangular parks, arranged around a ...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 03.18.2008 | Media
Addiction is a massively complex social problem -- but the sad thing is that rather than suggest solutions, the press is busy looking for stories to plug into its prize-seeking formula.
Jamie Stiehm | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
Like the bright melody that prevails in Duke Ellington's "Harlem", Obama seems to hold a vision of a happier hour in history, at what he calls a "defining moment" for war, peace and the planet.
Conor Friedersdorf | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
Whether creator David Simon thinks so or not, The Wire isn't a searing attack on the excesses of capitalism! That's not to say that the show isn't audacious.
John McQuaid | Posted 01.14.2008 | Media
In contrast to The Wire's amazingly cool, disciplined eye for every other aspect of urban society, this plotline has so far been the worst possible thing for a drama, both preachy and sentimental.
AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 01.10.2008 | Business
Black neighborhoods in Baltimore were disproportionately affected by the subprime mortgage fallout, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by th...
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I never actually heard the words made famous by a certain man on a certain TV show. Instead I got a lot...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
Don't write off Saint Sarah all you political pundits,...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's...
Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
Think Progress flags David Brooks telling...
While we of course do not claim to know anyone's thoughts, we nominate these...
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
For this week's installment of their "Lunch with the FT" feature the...
Al Franken's been anointed as Minnesota's junior senator, but how did the...
SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets...
"What's for dinner?" A lot of us ask that question right...
Chris Weigant | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics