Occupy Wall Street

'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'

2013-04-25 00:00:00

"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...

A scary situation that could have been even scarier

2012-12-06 17:36:00

It could have ended badly. Last Saturday, as many as 10,000 people listened while blogger Frank James MacArthur broadcast his stand-off with the Baltimore City Police Department live via Internet radio. The BPD had been trying for more than a week to...

What might have been: Life under President Romney

2013-01-27 05:00:00

News flash: President Romney and congressional leaders met today to review the terms of the recently concluded fiscal cliff deal wherein the Bush tax cuts were extended by four years, the corporate income tax rate was reduced from 35 percent to 25...

Meritocracy is ruining America, says pundit Chris Hayes

2013-01-07 10:21:00

Chris Hayes, an editor at large of The Nation and host of the talk show bearing his name on MSNBC, was raised in a working-class neighborhood but attended some of the most exclusive schools on the planet. "I grew up in the Bronx," says the affable, 33-...

Fiscal cliff deal won't end war between Democrats, Republicans

2013-01-03 00:00:00

"It's not all I would have liked," said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, speaking of the deal on the fiscal cliff, "so on to the debt ceiling." For Republicans, the battle over the fiscal cliff is only a prelude to the coming battle...

The Stone truth: Left-wingers are boring

2012-12-10 04:00:00

When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring? The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of...

Dan Deacon's split personalities share 'America'

2012-08-24 12:52:00

Dan Deacon is obsessed with apocalypse. From a dilapidated couch in his Station North practice space, the city's best-known electronic musician and composer quickly rattles off a list: the United States' "growing military stronghold," drone warfare,...

The importance of Occupy

2012-09-26 06:00:00

The Occupy Wall Street movement was created to make people aware of issues that aren't usually discussed in the mainstream corporate media: the greed of the powerful, the destruction of the environment, violence against women and gays and the perpetual...

Ehrlich carries 1 percent's water

2012-09-25 12:45:00

In his recent column ("'Occupy movement got America wrong," Sept. 23), Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. illustrates the denial of economic reality in America that is continually propagated by the 1 percent. At the heart of his argument is the idea that the...

Sun lavishes attention on bumbling 'Occupy,' ignores effective tea party

2012-09-23 05:00:00

Let me get this straight: a spontaneous movement arises and takes up the name "Tea Party" based on historical actions and the acronym "taxed enough already," amasses a very large number of either followers or sympathizers, and literally reverses the party...

Occupy anniversary to be marked with downtown art installation

2012-09-17 12:02:00

A local artists collective will be celebrating the one-year anniversary of the start of the national Occupy movement by recapping the movement’s high points with a light installation in downtown Baltimore Monday night. The national movement is...

Local activists say Occupy Baltimore still working for change

2012-09-17 17:38:00

Some are working to change the way development in Baltimore affects low-income residents. Others are using art to comment on social inequalities. Still others are battling home foreclosures in the city or gathering free books to hand out in poor...

An Occupy Wall Street protester participates in a march on Oct. 25, 2011, to the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.

2013-04-21 00:00:00

Anthony Carillo of Staten Island, whose home was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy, carries supplies out of an all volunteer relief center set up by the "Occupy Sandy Recovery" group in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, in New York City, November 16, 2012. Born out of the Occupy Wall

2012-11-16 00:00:00

An Occupy Wall Street activist looks out from under a bandage after being arrested during demonstrations on the one-year anniversary of the movement in New York.

2012-09-18 09:33:00