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Europe faces yet another recession, and the prospect is shaking global financial markets. To eliminate the persistent threat of collapse, Europe must drop the euro, and Germany must abandon mercantilism.

I have recently had several spirited conversations with an old friend from high school over the Israel and Hamas conflict and the larger questions surrounding Israeli settlements, the Palestinian Intifadas and a dual state solution. My friend, a self-proclaimed Zionist and American Israel...

Today's self-proclaimed 'Clinton Democrats' are more like Mr. Obama than they want to admit

There is no need for panic over Ebola, but there is need for concern about the CDC

It's the political season, which explains another column of "Things That Bug Me." Herewith my latest list for your consideration:

If there was evidence that voter fraud was prevalent — or even a serious possibility — then perhaps the Supreme Court's ruling early Saturday allowing Texas to impose one of the strictest voter photo identification laws in the country would make sense. Instead what the...

In May, the European Union's highest court made it easy for ex-offenders to continue their lives without shame. The court ordered Google to delete any online evidence of the checkered pasts of European citizens — from bank robbery to bankruptcy to beating one's wife or...

As the school year hits its stride, many parents and teachers of K-12 students feel overburdened with all-too-familiar concerns about failing schools, common core standards and teaching to the test. Now experts are adding one more thing to worry about: grit.

"There is no joy in Mudville," goes the famous refrain. "Mighty Casey has struck out."

In Maryland, Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the population and in the workforce, yet only 1 percent of them are employed by the state government. An analysis of the state's most recent Equal Employment Opportunity Report, for fiscal year 2013, reveals a serious problem...

This season, Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Steve Smith added to his jersey nameplate the suffix "Sr." He did this to acknowledge his third son, also named Steve, born this past July. It seems an admirable and harmless enough action. Under NFL rules, however, the play should have...

In the November 4 general election, Maryland voters will be asked to approve something long sought by transportation advocates — a "lockbox" for the state's transportation fund.

As revolutions go, Scotland's recent independence referendum was pretty mild stuff. Eligible voters — legal residents of Scotland — were given a simple, straightforward choice: Should Scotland be an independent country, yes or no?

Editor's note: This article has been updated to correctly reflect who investigated the Penn State pedophilia case. The school's board of trustees hired an independent investigator. The Sun regrets the error. 

As the Obama administration tries to recover from three years of naive ideological spin that Islamic radicals had been crushed, it is time to reassess what our world view should be.

As Baltimore City Public Schools began searching last year for a new leader, the Fund for Educational Excellence, a nonprofit working to secure resources needed to improve student achievement in the city schools, recognized that we knew very little about how community members viewed the...

Joe Biden has a penchant for revealing the inconvenient truth

Energy production has emerged as arguably the primary growth engine for America's economy. Oil production is surging, and the United States will emerge as the world's leading producer sometime this decade. America has already established self-sufficiency in natural gas, with the...

I've taught math at Oakland Mills High School in Howard County for seven years. In that time, I've read hundreds of articles about the problems in American math education. But I've yet to see a mention of the single biggest crisis I face in my classroom.

It's often said and written that presidents, to achieve greatness, require great challenges. Washington had the challenge of creating a new nation; Lincoln had the Civil War; FDR faced the Great Depression and World War II. All clearly qualified by that standard and achieved greatness.

If the White House would falsify records and lie to the public about a Cartegena hooker, is it really so hard to imagine that it would deceive the public -- and Congress -- about larger issues?