online dating

In today’s technology driven world, most people have either tried online dating or know someone who has. According to the dating site Match.com, one in five relationships now begins on the Internet. Online dating is a $2 billion industry. But is it really making dating easier? And how is it destroying romance? Journalist Dan Slater looks into this brave new world of matchmaking in "Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating."

Governor O'Malley is taking a third shot at pushing a wind-energy bill through the General Assembly. Should Marylanders subsidze one of first wind farms off the east coast? We ask Malcolm Woolf, former director of the Maryland Energy Administration.
And trend stories in the media tell us that online dating is hurting monogamy .. and the so-called "sexting app"  called Snapchat  is erasing what's left of modesty among American teenagers. What else is the Internet ruining? We ask our social media analysts, Nathan Jurgenson and P.J. Rey.