Send in the Troops: Trump’s March Toward Authoritarianism
With his customary ham-handed delicacy, President Donald Trump gazes 40 miles north from the Oval Office, glimpses the landscape, and declares this city “so far gone.”
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Michael Olesker, columnist for the News American, Baltimore Sun, and Baltimore Examiner has spent a quarter of a century writing about the city he loves.He is the author of several books, including Michael Olesker’s Baltimore: If You Live Here, You’re Home, Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, and The Colts’ Baltimore: A City and Its Love Affair in the 1950s, all published by Johns Hopkins Press.
Author: Michael Olesker
From Murrow to Colbert – CBS Ends an Era
BALTIMORE – On the evening of Nov. 18, 1951, Edward R. Murrow looked into a CBS camera for the first
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Patterson Park No Kings Rally: Taking Back the America We Used to Know
As he moved through the big, peaceful gathering Saturday afternoon at one of this nation’s many “No Kings” rallies vilifying President Donald Trump, the guy handing out free American flags stumbled to find a place to maneuver, so crowded was this rolling Patterson Park hillside.
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World War II: Stories of Heroes Never Die
Eighty years ago this week, the organized killing ended in Europe and the boys began packing their bags to come home. My father was one of them. He was stationed in Foggia, Italy, with the U.S. Army Air Force.
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Baltimore Uprising and Freddie Gray: ‘Have you ever seen anything like this?’
Ten years since the Freddie Gray riots, there’s a voice in my head that has never gone away. The voice is CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, as he gazed from a safe studio in Washington at the fire and the fury outside a pharmacy in West Baltimore.
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Trump’s contempt for Americans on display for all the world to see
Let’s get Trump’s cheap shot toward his predecessor out of the way first. It wasn’t Joe Biden who went after Trump, it was prosecutors in three states and the District of Columbia who had enough evidence to believe he had committed crimes.
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Where did all the religious leaders go in times of deportation?
As the Trump administration does its best to ignore vulnerable children, terrorize immigrants with dark skin, and cut thousands of government workers from their livelihoods, a question lingers in the air.
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Trump gets sweetheart sentence and still complains
The late District Court Judge Robert Gerstung had a sense of perspective to match his droll sense of humor. Too bad he’s not around anymore to share his thoughts on fair play with a criminal named Donald J. Trump.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crusade against the polio vaccine defies science
In his stupefying crusade against the polio vaccine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ought to imagine the ghostly figure of Robert Harris, who was one of the millions of children born – and departed – too soon to be saved.
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Would you have voted for Trump if you knew beforehand his cabinet picks?
Here’s the nice part about the 2024 Presidential election results: within hearing distance, there’s not a single Democrat complaining that the race was rigged.
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