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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

Republicans should be ashamed of Trump

Donald Trump demeans women and slanders men with his "locker room talk," says David Horsey.

After stiffing Merrick Garland, are Senate Republicans looking to double-down and block future Supreme Court nominees?

Letter: Time for GOP leaders to denounce Trump

All the seeds of Donald Trump's potential destruction were there in the summer of 2015 when he was riding so high, and it foreshadowed how the bombastic reality TV star would be critically wounded as a result of his flaws.

By David Zurawik

Oct 14, 2016

All the seeds of Donald Trump's potential destruction were there in the summer of 2015 when he was riding so high, and it foreshadowed how the bombastic reality TV star would be critically wounded as a result of his flaws.

By David Zurawik

Oct 14, 2016

Donald Trump is a poor excuse for a man, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Hillary Clinton's problem is not winning the youth vote from Trump, but getting the youth to vote at all, says Jonah Goldberg.

Telling veterans they are strong for not having post traumatic stress disorder serves only to stigmatize a common mental health problem

Even though TV has defied dinosaur predictions to hold center stage in the world of 2016 politics, social media will play a larger role than ever in Monday's debate.

By David Zurawik

Sep 24, 2016

As this pneumonia episode demonstrates, Ms. Clinton's real problem isn't her health, but the entirely valid perception that she's dishonest, secretive and exploits "the system" — including the support of the mainstream media — for her benefit.

Robert R. "Bob" Timberg, a former Evening Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter and Marine Corps veteran whose 1995 book "The Nightingale's Song" about five Naval Academy graduates who served in the Vietnam War earned him wide acclaim, died Tuesday from respiratory failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 76.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Sep 8, 2016

The consistent criticism from those who don't want Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election has been that Donald Trump won't stay on message; he highlights irrelevant, often out-of-date personal issues in place of issues that raise opposition toward Ms. Clinton. His campaign is doomed without a change in course, though it may already be too late for even that.

Can Republicans put the nation's interest ahead of their party's?

In 2001, John McCain helped to make betting against Michael Phelps all but illegal. Of course, you couldn't bet on him, either.

By Jonas Shaffer

Aug 5, 2016

Donald Trump far outdoes Hillary Clinton when it comes to falsehoods

Donald Trump's stranglehold on the Republican Party as it plunges headlong toward its national convention in mid-July imperils the party's very survival 162 years after its emergence from the withered skeleton of the Whig Party.

By Jules Witcover

Jun 27, 2016

In September 2004, as chairman of the Legal Committee for the Association of Boxing Commissions and general counsel to the Association of Ringside Physicians, I was honored and privileged to be invited to testify before a congressional subcommittee at a hearing entitled Examining Professional Boxing: Are Further Reforms Necessary — as was Muhammad Ali.

Congress should make women eligible for the draft and further turn aside cultural sexism

Maryland's Republican governor has no business telling voters who to support for president

Jules Witcover takes a look at Donald Trump's potential running mates: Messrs. Christie, Kasich and Carson among them.

There will be many awkward moments awaiting Republican leaders in the months to come, says David Horsey.

Like locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen, the Republican establishment is mounting a feeble rebellion against Donald Trump's presidential nomination, which is now nearly certain at the party's July national convention in Cleveland.

By Jules Witcover

May 9, 2016

Women will decide the winner of the 2016 presidential election.

Despite four polling places being open, few Harford County residents were taking advantage of early voting so far. Sunday, the turnout had dropped dramatically.

The absence of old-time party leadership is painfully evident in the GOP, says Jules Witcover.

Now that Donald Trump is the likely presidential nominee for the Republican Party in 2016, there are many questions that are interesting to consider regarding the Republican convention set for July 18-21 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Democrat David Trone, the Montgomery County businessman running in the 8th Congressional District, would be among the wealthiest members of Congress if elected, according to a personal financial disclosure statement he filed Friday.

By John Fritze

Mar 4, 2016

Super Tuesday made it clear that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to be the presidential nominees.

Ted Cruz has endorsements from some of the Religious Right's scariest voices, says David Horsey.

Midwestern voters may have trimmed the zombie candidates but presidential race is just beginning.

The notion that the Sarah Palin "get" is a kind of coup for Mr. Trump and a setback for Mr. Cruz only underscores the pathetic depths to which this campaign has sunk, with the election year only barely begun. Will Mr. Cruz now even the score by bagging the endorsement of Dan Quayle, who at least was a real vice president for four years?

By Jules Witcover

Jan 25, 2016

Less than month before the first votes of the 2016 presidential election are cast in Iowa, both major parties find themselves in the grip of revolution, says Jules Witcover.

By Jules Witcover

Jan 18, 2016

According to conventional wisdom, the GOP nominates the guy whose turn it is, while the Democrats look for a savior. As Bill Clinton once said, "In every presidential election, Democrats want to fall in love. Republicans just fall in line." That notion has been turned on its head this year, with Hillary running like a Republican and the GOP in a free-for-all.

The Pentagon's glitch-prone, $2.7-billion system of radar-equipped blimps — designed to safeguard the nation's capital against cruise missiles and other airborne threats — has long been a source of frustration to military leaders. A month ago, it became a punch line.

Marylanders continue to have a low level of support for former Gov. Martin O'Malley's presidential ambitions, a new poll for The Baltimore Sun and the University of Baltimore shows.

Right wing talk radio pours gas on the flames of the Republican civil war, says David Horsey.

President Obama should not leave office without closing Guantanamo.

Tuesday night's GOP debate hosted by the Fox Business channel was about 2 million times more responsible and substantive than its predecessor on CNBC.

By David Zurawik

Nov 10, 2015

The Pentagon and National Guard paid professional sports teams to publicly honor soldiers at sporting events, according to a Senate oversight report released Wednesday that labeled the practice "inappropriate and frivolous."

While Congress is keen on the idea of ignoring spending limits for the benefit of the Pentagon, it can't seem to find a way to fund domestic spending on such items as roads, bridges, education and health care. Any extra spending in those areas require cuts in other areas according to Republicans; a rule they ignored for defense spending.

As Sen. Angus King pressed national security officials to open up about their ability to wage war over the Internet, he turned not to some think tank white paper to make his point, but a 5-decade-old film about the dangers of nuclear brinkmanship.

By Ian Duncan

Oct 3, 2015

Will Jeb Bush pay a price for taking on Donald Trump?

By Jules Witcover

Sep 8, 2015

The GOP needs to make clear Donald Trump doesn't speak for the Republican Party, lest it go down with him.

At the highest levels, the U.S. and European Union believe that corruption in Russia is so extensive that after the invasion of Crimea and Ukraine, they directed many sanctions toward Russia's elite. John McCain maintained in 2013 that Putin rules by "corruption, repression and violence," and various news commentators calls Mr. Putin a "thug" at every turn. Yet, considering some of the legislation and behavior of our own political class, these claims seem sanctimonious. U.S. politicians would do