Two weeks after the pope’s comments cited in the column, he harshly criticized the death penalty as “an attack” on human dignity following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plans, initially supported by President Donald Trump, to conduct a public execution by firing squad. The administration canceled the public showing of the execution only after widespread condemnation.

        By Gerald Winegrad Your support is urgently needed for long-overdue major restrictions on the Virginia-based slaughter of tens of millions of individual menhaden a year. Thousands of osprey chicks in higher-salinity waters of bay country are dying slow, horrible deaths from starvation because of corporate greed decimating the ospreys’ major food…

Like Vito Corleone, the Godfather tending his tomato plants, in my supposed retirement, I spend each summer day tending my two crab pots on my Oyster Creek pier. I cherish catching my favorite food and feasting on steamed crabs in Old Bay with Maryland corn on the cob with Carol and others. This is how…

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of declaring our independence from England and its king, there has been a torrent of written and visual reflections on our hallowed Declaration of Independence and its global historical importance. One example is the harsh reality of Native Americans trapped in a lose-lose situation during the Revolutionary War. Tribes…

Last week’s column covered President Donald Trump’s insane blockage of clean and cheap sustainable energy from wind power. Equally appalling is his attack on solar power, energy efficiency and electric vehicles. His policies spur higher energy prices and diminish electrical supplies while promoting greater usage of polluting and costlier coal, oil and natural gas. At an April…