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The overwhelming victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton shows that the Democratic Party has fallen deeply out of touch with key demographics of American voters in key parts of the country. This election should not only have been winnable for the Democrats, it should have devastated the Republican Party for years. We live in a time when millennial voters like me proudly embrace the "Black Lives Matter" movement at the same time our now president-elect calls for a total and complete shutdown

The nation is sitting in shock. Some feel deflated. Others are jubilant, but even they are surprised. Despite it all, we are Americans. We are one nation. No matter what we are feeling, we must put aside personal preferences, lick our wounds and come together as one nation.

Can Republicans govern? History says no.

Yesterday, I wrote about the higher, ritualistic purpose some of the more responsible cable channels news played on election night as earth-shaking results were

The lessons Democrats should take from Trump's victory are the same ones Maryland got from Hogan's win in 2014

Voters, advocates and political leaders in Maryland and across the nation started to come to grips Wednesday with Donald Trump's stunning win in the presidential election — and quickly began to calculate how a new, untested administration will affect them.

After serving as an aggressive watchdog for police misconduct during the Obama administration, the Department of Justice could see its role diminished under President-elect Donald Trump, analysts said.

Trump should offer Clinton a prominent job.

How should we react to President-elect Trump? Start a movement.

This isn't Obama's America. Put him in the history books and don't look back.

Clinton's faults trumped Donald Trump's.

Donald J. Trump, the bombastic Republican businessman who challenged the political status quo throughout his entire campaign, was beating expectations in early returns late Tuesday, but the outcome of the presidential contest remained too close to call.

It felt good to vote for a woman for president of the United States. But it felt even better to vote against Donald Trump.

Voters across Maryland made their picks at last Tuesday, for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, Senate candidates Chris Van Hollen and Kathy Szeliga, and in Baltimore, for heavily favored mayoral nominee Catherine Pugh or one of her challengers.

Meanwhile, during his last days in office, President Barack Obama is referred to as a lame-duck president, meaning that his successor has been identified and he will no longer be president effective noon, Jan. 20. And while his replacement is waiting in the wings, the lame-duck president still has all the powers of the presidency until that date.

Here's why the stock market rises under Democratic presidents.

When it comes to choosing our nation's leader, choose the one who is experienced, battle-tested and smart, yet compassionate and caring. As President Obama said in July, "there has never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as President of the United States of America."

Is anyone picking Trump or Clinton based on policy issues? If so, here's where they stand.

Whether excited or exasperated, millions of voters in Maryland and across the country will head to the polls Tuesday to close out one of the most unusual and divisive elections in generations. After the raucous primaries, two dozen debates and a deluge of news about private email servers and sexist remarks, voters will finally choose the nation's 45th president.

James Comey, by his own hand, as well as with the encouragement of the Obama administration, the media and the Clinton Industrial Complex, found himself perched atop an enormous mountain of crap. Any effort to get off the fetid summit was bound to leave him soiled.

No United States president was born in, lived in, died in or is buried in Harford County, but many of them, from George Washington to Barack Obama, crisscrossed our county during their lifetimes, either before, during or after their presidencies.

Why is no one talking about Republican obstructionism on Supreme Court nominees?

Khristian Ward, a Roye-Williams Elementary School fifth grader, is one of 11 children from across the country who recently met with President Barack Obama as the first Kid Science Advisors to the president.

President Barack Obama has appointed Morgan State University's vice president for research and economic development to the 25-member National Science Board.

The Sun, and a departing school board member, overstate the impact of Hogan's post-Labor Day school opening order

If Clinton is elected president, our freedoms will be threatened and the biased media will be to blame

Donald Trump gave a speech last week outlining substantive ideas that he should have given long ago, says Cal Thomas.

Few can name a favorite moment shared with a U.S. president, yet White House correspondent April Ryan has at least three — one for Bill Clinton, one for George W. Bush, and one for Barack Obama.

How did the "growing trust" that Russian President Vladimir Putin once said marked his "working and personal relationship with President Obama" change into today's deep distrust and saber-rattling?

Anne Arundel County Executive Steve Schuh sees using county jails to hold undocumented immigrants for the federal government as a win for everyone. Advocates for immigrants, meanwhile, are urging the county against involving itself in the divisive national debate over immigration.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. The Democrat candidate for president promises to defend and build on

in business and politics, the mantra is "do whatever it takes to win, even if undermines the whole system," says Robert Reich.

Unless Democrats take over the Senate, Supreme Court vacancy may not be filled

With less than three weeks to go until the Nov. 8 election, The Baltimore Sun solicited input from undecided voters who have become the focus of the campaign's final few days. Hundreds of Marylanders answered a series of questions about the race in an online survey designed by the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center at Goucher College.

A tough, difficult fight

On the price we pay for nearly four decades of anti-government rhetoric, capped by Trump's assertions of a rigged election.

The two big questions for young voters in 2016 is, as always, turnout, and how many of them will vote for third-party candidates.

I hold an MBA, and studied strategic decision making. When faced with a crisis, what do you do when you don't know what to do?

Medicare on Friday unveiled a far-reaching overhaul of how it compensates doctors and other clinicians to reward quality, cost-effective care instead of just paying piecemeal for services

A Trump presidency offers a better opportunity for jobs, prosperity and defeating ISIS

For many farmers, the corn maze has also become one of the most profitable forms of agricultural tourism — or "agritourism" — and a primary source of income. And as competition in the region heats up and corn maze designs become more involved, farmers are looking for any edge they can get to set themselves apart.

When Baltimore-based Laureate Education decided to go public last fall, the for-profit university system had just finished a rapid expansion and was preparing to reap the benefits of its newfound global reach. A year later, the company still hasn't listed its stock on the market and has become ensnared in the divisive presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump..

Republicans take heart. Many of the goals promised for fulfillment by your presidential candidate have been met already or are in the process of fulfillment. Here are some economic numbers reported by factcheck.org — some good, some bad — since President Barack Obama first took office:

The "X-Files" seem like "Scooby-Doo" compared to the conspiracy theories put forth by Donald Trump and his supporters, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Republicans should use the left's "smoking gun" on Mr. Trump's taxes as a weapon to demand tax reform, says Cal Thomas.

Addressing the Congressional Black Caucus Dinner, President Obama put into historical context the struggle for voting rights and then said, "I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down its guard. You want to give me a good send off? Go Vote." His message missed the mark.

Op-ed: H.L. Mencken would be ashamed of the way journalists have covered Donald Trump during this election.

This month, two critical policies that directly impact the growth of the green economy and health of our communities are up for debate: the nation's first mandatory carbon pollution policy, known as The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative or RGGI, and the nation's largest carbon pollution policy, known as the Clean Power Plan. Both must be upheld and strengthened — particularly for the good of black communities.

If you want to see an example of a small lobbying group intimidating Democrats and Republicans prior to an election, just look at the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act that sailed through Congress, and then again after the bill was vetoed by President Barack Obama.

A cliché holds that one never gets a second chance to make a first impression. Four years ago, though, President Obama didn't do well in his first encounter with Mitt Romney, but he bounced back in the second without any character transplant. Can the set-in-tone Donald Trump do likewise next time?