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With new book, Madeleine Albright sheds light on long-hidden family secrets

2012-05-05 00:00:00

In 1997, Madeleine Albright couldn't have been more certain that she knew everything important about herself and was in possession of every relevant fact about her life. And then, at age 59, just days after being confirmed as U.S. secretary of state,...

Your papers, please: Arizona, immigration and the welfare state

2012-04-30 03:00:00

With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona's "show me your papers" immigration law, we're once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the obligations of the citizen -- and non-citizen. Rather than come at it from the usual...

Sun editorials: Foresight in the rear view

2012-05-09 07:45:00

Readers might conclude that they were well served by The Sun editorial page's 1971 endorsement of City Council President William Donald Schaefer for mayor. Perhaps less so by its lament that he was "not an inspiring leader" or its prediction that the city...

Bealefeld: Downtown beating not a hate crime

2012-04-10 11:56:00

Baltimore's top cop on Tuesday warned against "race-baiting" amid rising tensions across the nation, citing the Trayvon Martin case and cautioning that a video generating outrage on the Internet of a tourist being beaten and stripped in downtown Baltimore...

Lithuania tries to whitewash its role in the Holocaust

2012-04-23 09:45:00

In response to Ellen Cassedy's "We are here" (April 18), I offer a second opinion. Can there be hope for a country that claimed the highest percentage of Jewish deaths in all of Europe? More than 95 percent ofLithuania'sJews were annihilated — most...

Letter: Pulling troops out prior to victory harms U.S. foreign policy

2012-04-24 14:11:00

The United States has not won a war since 1945. We have been involved in numerous conflicts and our military has performed magnificently — considering the political interference and (mis)direction endured.� This interference has caused us to lose...

Is censorship the new pluralism?

2012-02-25 03:00:00

Pat Buchanan might have seen the end of the line coming at MSNBCwhen, last month, network president Phil Griffin commented on his latest book, "Suicide of a Superpower," by saying, "I don't think the ideas that [Buchanan] put forth are appropriate for the...

Remembering Pearl Harbor: 'We shall win'

2011-12-07 03:00:00

Seventy years ago today, Japan launched a surprise attack on America's Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the United States into the second World War. More than 2,400 Americans were killed in the attack, including four Marylanders, all of whom...

China envy, or how the progressives dusted off the idea of 'liberal fascism'

2011-12-05 03:00:00

In 2008, I wrote a book called "Liberal Fascism." That title came from H.G. Wells, one of the most important socialist writers in the English language. He believed, as did his fellow Fabian socialists, that Western democratic capitalism had outlived its...

Chaplin films coming to the Charles Theatre

2012-02-09 06:50:00

The most towering figure in Hollywood history wore ill-fitting clothes, including shoes several sizes too big, and never said a word. Beginning Saturday, he'll be spending a year at Baltimore's Charles Theatre. Charlie Chaplin, a British expatriate who...

As changes loom, a look inside a reading classroom

2012-02-07 16:05:00

In a sixth-grade reading classroom at Dunloggin Middle School in Ellicott City on Tuesday, teacher Amy Monachino guided her students through a chapter in Lois Lowry's "Number the Stars." Books on the Holocaust lined the chalkboard. But the only book up...

City man connects to Czech heritage through Wilson statue

2011-10-02 16:21:00

Michael G. Rokos has traveled thousands of miles to pay homage to his American and Czech heritage and to the 28th U.S. president, who befriended his family nearly a century ago. The lifelong Baltimorean will reconnect with cousins in the Czech Republic...

and lured to the United States by Harvard University, Bauhaus school founder Walter Gropius built this home for his family on a quiet road near Boston back in 1938.

2012-05-19 16:51:32

A World War II veteran looks on during a Victory Day celebration in Gorky Park in Moscow. Russia celebrated the 67th anniversary of its victory over Nazi Germany .

2012-05-09 00:00:00

A boy climbs on a World War II monument at an open air museum in Kiev during Victory Day celebrations. Ukraine, Russia and other post-Soviet countries marked today the 67th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

2012-05-09 00:00:00