Columns

Though the Ravens have their sights set on a Super Bowl, it’s clear that their long-tenured coach has done enough to earn job security through the Lamar Jackson era.

Between the college championship Monday and the NFL playoffs heading juke step to their crescendos, it’s hard to be anywhere in public right now and not have football on a TV, a phone or your lips. We have reached the moment when football seems infinite.

Local author Amy L. Bernstein wants you to feed your starving creative soul by wrangling your doubt monster.

Jackson has never been better, more complete and less mistake-prone in the playoffs than in a 28-14 win over the Steelers on Saturday. At 28, he's maturing, even if his critics stick to the same tired arguments.

The secretary of the Navy recounted Travis Manion’s explanation to his family about why he would return to Iraq for a second combat tour in December 2006 — a decision that resulted in his death while leading a patrol five months later.

Even allowing for the year-over-year payroll increase the Orioles are expected to make from 2024 to 2025, the way the team is operating has an air of keeping one’s powder dry for something else.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson said his mother cussed him out after a loss. It's complicated, but as a Black mother raised by a Black mother, I get it.

What if, instead of a fruitless search for meaning on the first day of the 119th Congress, I made a simple request?

The Orioles look worse off than when they started the offseason. Why won’t Mike Elias and the front office go big?

Blake Lively’s seemingly odd behavior on the “It Ends With Us” press tour was allegedly a calculated attempt to make her look bad, because people like making women look bad.

At last, the real season can begin.

As Anne Arundel County Democratic and Republican party leaders decide this weekend on the next state senator for Annapolis and the next delegate for Pasadena, one consideration will rise above all others: Who can hold the seat in 2026 and improve their party’s prospects?

In 2025, we’re holding space for the highs and lows, and hoping for the divine — or at least the occasional chuckle.

From Derrick Henry's stiff arms to Albert Suarez's incredible comeback story to David Rubenstein's big entrance, here's what we'll remember about Baltimore sports in 2024.

Here is 2024 in review, according to me. I can’t send you all cookies, so you’ll have to make do with numbers.

I could not have predicted that the columns that resonated with people most this past year would be about such random topics, ranging from Australian breakdancers to the “Brats” documentary.

Josh Allen? Nah.

Jefferson Holland is the new Annapolis poet laureate. And, if he’s better known as a singer and songwriter focused on Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay, that’s because to him there’s not much difference.

I failed my self-imposed fashion challenge, set as last year’s New Year’s resolution. But I think that’s OK.