Maryland

by: Zainab Chaudry, CAIR National Seated in the courtroom Monday as Judge Phinn overturned Adnan Syed’s conviction and set him free, I and dozens of others wiped tears of joy as we watched tears streaming unchecked down the faces of his family members. After over twenty years of unjustly serving…

“It’s a very hard decision when you leave a country, and you know you probably won’t be able to return,” Khyber says. “It’s no longer a country where you believe in the values. All those freedoms, they’re all taken away. Everything was multiplied by zero. Everything.” On Sunday, August 15…

gigs by patrick dennis riley stale beer and smoke saturated the dimly lit nightclub dance floor. driving home over savage mountain at night a distinct cucumber fragrance penetrated the morning air. some nights we stopped for chile and milkshakes where les paul and mary ford twanged from a colorful wurlitzer.

Now that the primary season is over, many legislators who live in safe seats will turn their focus to the 2023 session. As such, the Maryland Child Alliance is beginning our 2023 legislative work. While most advocacy and lobbying work is done in back rooms with closed negotiations, we strive…

Higher education is broken, but solutions are obvious. — Back in 2016, I was a typical high-flier destined to head to a decent university. Phenomenal GPA, a bunch of AP classes and credits, student government nerd, etc. I applied to six schools (Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, and Maryland). …