Opinion

This $50 million unmanned underwater vehicle was developed by Northrop Grumman over four years and constructed at its plant outside Annapolis. That’s a source of pride for the people who work there. But it also brings questions about military use of AI home to Maryland.

Zach Fruit once saw himself as a two-pitch reliever in the major leagues. The O’s have different ideas.

If Gen X faced the same curfews and rules at malls that today’s teens do, the trajectory of an entire generation’s adolescence would have changed.

Plus: The surprising ask from teams Baltimore could trade with.

Even though a whole handful of Orioles were runners-up in the fan vote, players and the commissioner's office whiffed on the reserve selections. Jordan Westburg and Craig Kimbrel should be especially aggrieved.

Annapolis is developing a plan to make it easier to get into the water. But swimming? It’s not on anyone’s priority list.

Mya Coleman, 9, and her dad, Albert, have had to navigate a new life of doctors and financial worries since her heart transplant. But Mya’s strength, faith, pluckiness and stubbornness have sustained them.

Former teacher Kerry Graham went back to the classroom as a tutor and realized that healing is not linear but complicated and disorienting.

With clamor growing for President Joe Biden to step aside as the nominee, we all should suddenly care very much about who attends the convention in August. Because these Democrats, most of them people you’ve never heard of, could — maybe — have a say in what happens next in this craziest of presidential elections dramas.

The Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity brings Independence Day into question.

The infielder has demonstrated what the Orioles knew about him — he can help the team win in many ways.

And what will the Orioles actually have to give up to add pitching?

What the heck did Thomas Jefferson mean by writing that we had a right to the pursuit of happiness? I asked Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, food historian Joyce White, Baltimore Orioles owner David Rubenstein, nonprofit leader and teacher Tatiana Klein and artist Jeff Huntington what it means to them. Here’s what they said.

Former President Trump said that immigrants are coming for “Black jobs.” What, exactly, does that even mean? Columnist Leslie Gray Streeter has some thoughts.

Little was known about the 51-year-old New Yorker when he joined the ownership group, but a deep love of baseball has him positioned as the control person on deck.

Lines carved by the wind on the sand are no different than what followed the violence that ended five lives on June 28, 2018 — energy moving from one form to another.

It has somehow become an accepted, understood fact that the Orioles need to make significant moves to upgrade the pitching staff. But everything else we know about the club says it will likely hold on to its best prospects.

Elise Cooper is 17 and a rising senior at McDonogh who will be competing against the likes of Sha'Carri Richardson and Gabby Thomas for an Olympic spot in the 200 meters Thursday in Oregon.

To raise good LGBTQ allies, treat every month like Pride Month.

Plus, real talk about Kyle Bradish, a breakout international prospect and an Adley Rutschman nugget.