CLIMATE CHANGE legislation, according to conventional wisdom, is all but dead for the year. It fell victim to Senate gridlock, yawning gaps between lawmakers over how and even whether to tackle the issue and President Obama's decision last year to place it third on his list of priorities, after the

SINCE ITS founding in 1948, the Organization of American States has defined its two top purposes as "to strengthen peace and security" and "to consolidate and promote representative democracy." On the second count, it is failing.

RETIRED JUSTICE Sandra Day O'Connor last month decried " increasingly expensive and negative campaigns for judicial office " that erode public faith in the judiciary. Maryland lawmakers should heed the former justice: Elections, campaign contributions and the inevitable conflicts of interest they...

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GOP Rep. Paul Ryan learned quickly that the president doesn't care about deficits.