The Frederick Board of County Commissioners yesterday passed Maryland's first ordinance mandating where farmers can raise their hogs, after two years of complaints from residents about the stench emanating from giant manure pits. The ordinance, which was approved 4 to 1 and takes...

You're a decent person. You try to do the right thing. Whether or not you're 100 percent vegetarian, you're against cruelty in animal agriculture. If it cannot be totally eliminated, you want it minimized. So you buy eggs from free-range farms and purchase...

Frederick Douglass is known for fiercely opposing slavery after running away from his Maryland owner, for championing equal rights and women's rights and for being a forceful speaker.But he spent much of his adult life as a journalist, first publishing a newspaper in Rochester, N.Y.,...

The young blond Frenchman, dressed all in black down to his leather wristband, drinks champagne with foie gras and consults his cell phone every few minutes. His pretty raven-haired girlfriend, sunglasses on top of her head, dines more modestly on a salad and Coke. Along...

Animal Farm, by George Orwell: How is Fredrick being represented by Hitler throughout the book.