Cartoonist, ICE agent or federal prosecutor: Your words and deeds are your legacy. Live with it. Die with it.

It's cool that Baltimore's Mr. Trash Wheel, the trash interceptor based in the city's Inner Harbor, is a worldwide celebrity. He's had some viral moments and enjoyed lots of attention for several years now. But so has all the trash that floats with every rain into the Inner Harbor, a chronic and depressing phenomenon. It would not be so bad if Maryland instituted a 10-cent deposit on every beverage bottle and can -- some of the estimated 5.5 billion of them that people across the state go through every year.

Central bankers from around the world said Tuesday they “stand in full solidarity” with U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, after President Donald Trump dramatically escalated his confrontati…

Essays in contrast: One dreads the juvenility of the Trump regime, the other salutes a true adult who took a stand for decency.

Abolition of the out-of-control federal agency now has mainstream support

Miller, the Trump Whisperer, has been allowed to create something Americans despise — a police state.

Journalists should not believe anything the Department of Homeland Security says

"It ain't no myst'ry ... If it's politics or hist'ry... The thing you gotta know is ... Ev'rything is show biz."

The fact that Baltimore’s chronic problem with violent crime is finally being abated by smart law enforcement strategies and social science gets the big year-end headline: Homicides at histor…

2026: How to blunt the depressing effects of the Trump presidency on the nation, on your state and on your soul.

A veteran jazz ensemble announced on Monday it was canceling its New Year's Eve performances at the Kennedy Center, the latest group to withdraw from the Washington arts institution after it was renam...

A short take before wishing you a Happy New Year. . . . A press release from Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake says thrift shopping has surged across the region, with shopper traffic up more than 30% for the year, and some locations exceeding 40% growth. Goodwill notes increased demand for used goods -- women's apparel, in particular -- among younger and first-time thrift shoppers.

Lee McCardell was the most famous war correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. The first Sunpapers writer to get into the action after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, he reported on the fighting in…

One Christmas Eve in the early 1990s, while driving along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Baltimore, I looked up at the old high-rise public housing projects that were to be torn down a few years later. I had done some reporting on the poverty and crime in those buildings, and had met a single mother who yearned to get her son to a better neighborhood and school.

Trump, who was 17 when Kennedy was killed, has put his name on the Kennedy Center, a true measure of his depravity.

The spat between Baltimore’s top prosecutor and its mayor has hogged the headlines, but I wanted to hear more about the mission they share: increasing safety and honoring justice.

For 36 years, Nancy Longo has cooked seafood in a cluttered kitchen the size of an elevator. The other night she took the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes to the top floor, and invited me to go along for the ride. See my column about this experience at Baltimore Fishbowl.