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Dan Rodricks
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Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist, author, playwright, broadcaster, fly angler, crepe cook. Follow me: danrodricks.com
Sorry, Your Holiness, ‘extremely disrespectful’ doesn’t cut it
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Sorry, Your Holiness, ‘extremely disrespectful’ doesn’t cut it
Pope Leo's words are too soft to effect Trump's cruel treatment of immigrants or even reflect the level of outrage already felt by a majority of Americans
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November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Announcing a free student matinee of “No Mean City: Baltimore 1966.” Taking reservations now.

The run of my next play, "No Mean City: Baltimore 1966," will include a free student matinee on Wednesday, March 11 at noon. Seating in the Meyerhoff Theater of the Baltimore Museum of Art is limited to…
Announcing a free student matinee of “No Mean City: Baltimore 1966.” Taking reservations now.
The run of my next play, "No Mean City: Baltimore 1966," will include a free student matinee on Wednesday, March 11 at noon. Seating in the Meyerhoff Theater of the Baltimore Museum of Art is limited to 350, so Baltimore-area high schools are urged to make reservations now. "No Mean City" is a historical drama about the civil rights movement and the backlash to it, the words and deeds of Baltimore's last Republican mayor and the union of two great Robinsons -- Brooks and Frank -- who helped the Baltimore Orioles win the 1966 American League pennant and World Series.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Casting between the falling leaves #flyfishing @trout
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Trump on the Jamal Khashoggi murder: 'Things happen'
He might as well have said . . . .
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Trump on the Jamal Khashoggi murder: 'Things happen'
A bright-red reminder that 77 million Americans chose for president one of the nation’s most despicable men.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
-- Bonhoeffer
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I feel compelled to note the anniversary, or else see those who died disappear deeper into the folds of time and our collective ambivalence about the long war in Vietnam.
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Dan Rodricks: Compelled to remember 5 from Maryland lost this day in Vietnam
On Nov. 17, 1965, five Maryland men died on the deadliest day in the fierce battles of the Ia Drang Valley during the Vietnam War.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Great stuff: Deny flood relief help to Westernport, Maryland and other communities, then skip town.
The White House fired a sensible FEMA chief in May and replaced with an unqualified loyalist — who just resigned after six unfortunate months on the job.

It’s hardly unreasonable to wonder if the agency can survive Trump’s second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Trump-appointed FEMA chief resigns after six troubled months on the job
As the agency’s acting administrator exits, it’s hardly unreasonable to wonder whether FEMA can survive the president’s second term.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A model train metropolis 40 years in the making

Antoni Gaudi won’t be around to see the completion of his masterwork; the basilica Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is not scheduled for completion until 2026 — 144 years after Gaudi designed it and 100 after his death. Gustav Mahler took six years to…
A model train metropolis 40 years in the making
Antoni Gaudi won’t be around to see the completion of his masterwork; the basilica Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is not scheduled for completion until 2026 — 144 years after Gaudi designed it and 100 after his death. Gustav Mahler took six years to compose his magnificent Symphony No. 2, and Freddie Mercury needed most of a decade to finish “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
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November 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Fishing lures in the wind

On Veterans Day, during a drive through Maryland's Washington County, I took a side trip to see Dam No. 5, also known as the Honeywood Dam, on the Potomac River. It was a sunny but cold and blustery day, with some big winds bending trees and the dried sorghum I passed on…
Fishing lures in the wind
On Veterans Day, during a drive through Maryland's Washington County, I took a side trip to see Dam No. 5, also known as the Honeywood Dam, on the Potomac River. It was a sunny but cold and blustery day, with some big winds bending trees and the dried sorghum I passed on the way through farm country. Access to Honeywood has been limited for more than a year as the…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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If I had a bell I would be walking through the center town ringing, it yelling “shame!“
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
It would be a wonderful thing if one day, on a national holiday, we could honor those who served in peace as well as those who served in war.
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Dan Rodricks: Honoring veterans and all who serve the nation in peace and war
This Veterans Day, thank a veteran in your life. And if you don't know one (which is growing more likely), find one, Dan Rodricks writes.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My daughter asked for ‘various salads’ for a birthday dinner . . .

And so I obliged her, digging into one of my favorite recipe books, The Foods of Italy by the late great Giuliano Bugialli, who was a guest on my television show in the 1990s. Bugialli was a champion of simple, authentic vegetable…
My daughter asked for ‘various salads’ for a birthday dinner . . .
And so I obliged her, digging into one of my favorite recipe books, The Foods of Italy by the late great Giuliano Bugialli, who was a guest on my television show in the 1990s. Bugialli was a champion of simple, authentic vegetable dishes from all over Italy. I found a variety of his insalata recipes for a dinner for my daughter, friends and family.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A demonstration of the moral absurdity -- and illegality -- of what Trump and Hegseth are doing off the coast of Venezuela.
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Why stop at blowing up boats?
Trump and Hegseth continue to kill people in boats under the pretense of stopping the flow of illegal drugs. Why stop there?
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November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
An old tradition: Naming places on rivers and trails

Among those who fish — and I’m sure it’s true of those who hunt and hike — you get into the habit of naming familiar places in the great outdoors, branding them in some personal way. Gunpowder River Along the Gunpowder River in northern…
An old tradition: Naming places on rivers and trails
Among those who fish — and I’m sure it’s true of those who hunt and hike — you get into the habit of naming familiar places in the great outdoors, branding them in some personal way. Gunpowder River Along the Gunpowder River in northern Baltimore County, most anglers know where to find Whale Rock. Given the large boulder that inspired the name, it’s likely to stick for several generations.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Nov. 4, 2025: Big day for Democrats and democracy.
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Back in the days before Republicans lost their minds, the country mostly took priority over party — and certainly over any particular president.
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Once Upon a Time in America: A Liberal Republican Who Supported Civil Rights
Weekend essay: His name was McKeldin, the last Republican mayor of Baltimore, and a central figure in my third play about the city.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
World Series 2025 was epic. So were ticket prices. In 1966, you could have a box seat for ….

The 2025 World Series was epic. Too bad one team had to lose, and too bad it was the Toronto Blue Jays. We were rooting for them, and I’m sure that was the case throughout most of Birdland, home of the…
World Series 2025 was epic. So were ticket prices. In 1966, you could have a box seat for ….
The 2025 World Series was epic. Too bad one team had to lose, and too bad it was the Toronto Blue Jays. We were rooting for them, and I’m sure that was the case throughout most of Birdland, home of the soon-to-be-great-again (and Blue Jays AL East rival) Baltimore Orioles. Next year will bring the 60th anniversary of the…
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November 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Maryland se une a otros 23 estados para presentar una demanda contra Trump por la suspensión ilegal de los beneficios del SNAP.

La Coalición urge que la Corte restaure de inmediato los fondos de SNAP, de los que dependen 42 millones de estadounidenses Comunicado de prensa del Fiscal General de…
Maryland se une a otros 23 estados para presentar una demanda contra Trump por la suspensión ilegal de los beneficios del SNAP.
La Coalición urge que la Corte restaure de inmediato los fondos de SNAP, de los que dependen 42 millones de estadounidenses Comunicado de prensa del Fiscal General de Maryland BALTIMORE, MD (28 de octubre de 2025)– El Fiscal General Anthony G. Brown se unió hoy a una coalición de otros 22 fiscales generales y tres gobernadores para presentar una demanda contra el Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos (USDA) y su Secretaria Brooke Rollins por suspender ilegalmente el Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria (SNAP), que ayuda a más de 40 millones de estadounidenses a comprar alimentos, debido al cierre del gobierno federal.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Democrats, first under FDR and later under LBJ, reduced the number of Americans going hungry. A brief, partially personalized history of the nation's food benefits programs
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October 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
More boats destroyed, more murders at sea today, and no one to stop him.
Chief Justice John Roberts — Trump’s biggest enabler — encouraged a lawless president to become even more lawless. If Trump can’t be stopped from ordering the murders of people in boats, there are no bounds to his depravity or his use of military power.
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Who will stop Trump from blowing up boats and executing suspects without trial?
The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roberts, has made Trump even more lawless in his second term.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Chief Justice John Roberts — Trump’s biggest enabler — encouraged a lawless president to become even more lawless. If Trump can’t be stopped from ordering the murders of people in boats, there are no bounds to his depravity or his use of military power.
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Who will stop Trump from blowing up boats and executing suspects without trial?
The Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roberts, has made Trump even more lawless in his second term.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“Traditionally, the military has maintained a staunchly apolitical stance, but recent events have blurred this critical boundary." -- Army Lt. Col
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Unbelievable
He and Hegseth contrive uses of the U.S. military, as if they are playing a video game. It's all performative.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.
October 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM