Five years ago, Governor O’Malley planned to enact what was intended to be one of his signature achievements: weekend MARC train service. Then, the financial crisis hit, and the state was forced to indefinitely halt the planned service expansion. Since that point, Baltimoreans have been either stranded in their city or forced to pay outrageous [...]
Due to Russia’s recent foreign policy success in Syria, the country’s resurgent aggression seems to have been all but forgotten. Until President Vladimir Putin announced an agreement with Syria to put the civil-war torn country’s chemical weapons stock under international control, whispers of a new Cold War had penetrated the analysis of liberals and democrats [...]
Originally Published in The Washington Monthly on September 12, 2013 This week Johns Hopkins University received quite a bit of bad press for asking one of their faculty members, Matthew D. Green, to take down a blog post he wrote regarding recent encryption revelations associated with the National Security Agency (NSA). The incident raised major [...]
This week up to two hundred villagers were taken hostage by a Muslim separatist rebel group in Zamboanga City, a commercial and industrial center on the island of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines. The New York Times reported at least eight dead and dozens more wounded, with the fighting continuing to this day. While on [...]
In regards to the Syrian situation, the United States government has done an amazing job of maneuvering itself into an impressively tight corner. President Obama and Vice President Biden have said three times within the past year that the Syrian use of chemical weapons would cross a “red line” and result in anything from ominous [...]
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