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National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden recently asked Vladimir Putin via teleconference, "Does Russia intercept or store the communications in any way of millions of individuals?” Putin, a former officer in

In case you haven’t heard: Governor Martin O’Malley stated that his top priority of his final legislative session in office was to increase the state’s minimum wage. Maryland’s House of

Marathon Monday in Boston reaches into the dawn of my childhood when memories blur. But the annual cavalcade of runners huffing down Washington Street in Newton Lower Falls on

Paul Ryan’s yearly Misanthropic Paroxysm, otherwise known as the Ryan Budget Proposal, would be laughable for its sophistry if it didn’t simply stink of Dickensian mean-spiritedness. To back up his

Baltimore Streetcar Museum (Wikipedia) The Baltimore Red Line project has stirred up a great deal of controversy over the past few years. As I wrote last week, it is 14.1-mile of

Republican celebrity Reihan Salam wants the middle class to pay the wealthy to have more heirs. (Pop!Tech 2009) Really, Republicans aren’t just servile mouthpieces for the interests of the wealthy.

Today is the deadline for open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and despite numerous political compromises, some serious technical glitches and existential opposition, the ACA is Barack

I interviewed Melanie Wagor: filmmaker, producer, director and advocate for women in film. We talked about recent work with Eric Stoltz; Space Station 76, the film she recently worked

Baltimore City wants the Red Line to happen in the worst way. The Red Line is a proposed 14.1-mile, east-west transit line connecting the areas of I’ve lived here for a