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• Opinion

Let the House choose the next president

If Libertarian candidate can make it a 3-way race, House can choose next U.S. president

• Politics

Martin O'Malley formally bows out in Maryland, other races set

Martin O'Malley formally withdrew his name from the Maryland presidential ballot on Friday, avoiding the potential for an embarrassing home state result in the April primary.

By John Fritze

Feb 6, 2016

• Opinion

In debate flap, voters are the losers

Dispute between Donald Trump and Fox News is all about media manipulation

• Opinion

What did the Iowa caucuses prove? Not much

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

• Politics

Timing, Trump challenge O'Malley, Carson in Iowa

After years of anticipation, and now months of aggressive campaigning, aspirations for Martin O'Malley's presidential bid feel distant as Iowans prepare to embark on the nation's first caucus on Monday.

By John Fritze

Jan 31, 2016

• Politics

Timing, Trump challenge O'Malley, Carson in Iowa

After years of anticipation, and now months of aggressive campaigning, aspirations for Martin O'Malley's presidential bid feel distant as Iowans prepare to embark on the nation's first caucus on Monday.

By John Fritze

Jan 31, 2016

• Opinion

Fox moderators, GOP debate seemed smaller without Trump

There was nothing seriously wrong with the Republican debate Thursday night on Fox News. It was lively, somewhat contentious and the moderators were exemplary in maintaining control.But I have to admit, I kept shifting my attention whenever I thought I could get away with it to the screen showing Donald Trump¿s counterprogramming event for veterans.

By David Zurawik

Jan 29, 2016

• Opinion

Two parties in revolt

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

• Politics

Jim Gilmore must collect signatures to appear on Maryland ballot

Republican presidential candidate Jim Gilmore will not make the Maryland primary ballot unless he gathers thousands of signatures by next month, state election officials said Thursday.

By John Fritze

Jan 14, 2016

• Opinion

Party's over: Time for GOP to Dump Trump

Donald Trump is perhaps the most divisive, dangerous, racist candidate in our history, says Bill Press.

• Opinion

A chance to deflate Trump

Donald Trump may, or at least should, face sharp questioning from two separate quarters in Tuesday night's Republican debate in Las Vegas. His opposing candidates need to target him to salvage their own campaigns, and the CNN moderators need to expose his demagoguery for the sake of the political process' own reputation.

By Jules Witcover

Dec 14, 2015

• Opinion

Paris attacks are cause to punish real enemies, not invent false ones

For years, Americans and U.S. policymakers have made punching bags of France, says John Kass.

• Opinion

A new hope in Paris

U.S. climate talks represent a repudiation of terrorist and of those who would deny science and diplomacy

• Opinion

How to deflate the polls

The travesty in the first four rounds of Republican debates of relegating some of the candidates to the "undercard" never should have happened, says Jules Witcover.

By Jules Witcover

Nov 16, 2015

• Politics

Presidential candidates who haven't caught on need to decide if they should get out now

With less than 100 days to go before the Iowa caucuses, presidential hopefuls with dwindling bank accounts and bottom-scraping poll numbers are beginning to weigh the risks of staying in the race versus getting out.

• Opinion

Mad as hell demogoguery won't win Trump GOP nomination

Donald Trump is winning in media coverage, but he won't win the GOP nomination, says Jules Witcover.

• Opinion

Who's afraid of Donald Trump?

Like it or not, Donald Trump isn't going to be easily knocked from the head of the GOP pack, but several other candidates emerged as ones to watch in Thursday's debate

• Baltimore City Paper

Savage Love: High Times

Does a person who acts loving only when high on weed really love you? My live-in boyfriend of three years acts sweet, loving, and caring when he's high, but when the weed runs out, he's mean, angry, hurtful, and horrible to be around.

• Opinion

C-SPAN's GOP forum: simple, straightforward and informative TV

C-SPAN's "Voters First Forum" lacked Donald Trump but featured Ben Carson, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul Marco Rubio at St. Anselm's College in New Hampshire.

By David Zurawik

Aug 3, 2015

• Opinion

Dictatorial polls determine fate of GOP candidates

Public-opinion polls, once employed by political consultants to gauge the concerns of voters as a means to shape their candidates' campaigns more effectively, have become the tail that wags the dog.

By Jules Witcover

Aug 3, 2015

• Opinion

C-SPAN on righteous course with GOP forum tonight

Whenever I get too depressed about all the media institutions that have lost their sense of mission during the last tumultuous decade, I turn on C-SPAN.

By David Zurawik

Aug 3, 2015

• Opinion

GOP's condemnation of Trump pure hypocrisy

Note to the GOP: Unless a principle is applied equally it is not really principle at all, says Leonard Pitts Jr. referring to the party's condemnation of Donald Trump.

• Opinion

ISIS and climate change: O'Malley has a point

Mock all you want, Republicans, but O'Malley is dead-on about the global security threats of climate change.

• Opinion

America needs a justice system worthy of the name

America may moving toward a transformational moment: the end of mass incarceration, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Opinion

The summer of hate

Anti-Latino rants by Trump and others are not only vile but badly misrepresent the realities of immigrants in the U.S.

• Maryland

GOP candidates need better answers

Republicans consider it an article of faith to deny that human activity has anything to do with climate change, largely due to the influence of the energy sector of the economy, and also in part to the issue's association with a very prominent Democrat, Al Gore, and so the responses they offered to the Pope's call were predictable.

• Maryland

Letter: Population growth affects climate change

• Opinion

Pope Francis urges consensus on climate change

Reacting to climate change, despite the expense, is worth the risk that it is all a hoax, writes Leonard Pitts.

• Opinion

Charleston church killer was spawned in a racist swamp

David Horsey: Two things are at work in the reactions to the Charleston massacre on the right, and both are a bit sickening.

• Politics

Who is running for president in 2016?

In order from most recently announced, here are the announced candidates for the 2016 presidential election.

• Opinion

Why no love for Bernie Sanders?

Newspaper covers Republican candidate but not the Vermont independent running for president

• Opinion

Can the GOP win back the White House?

Republicans fear having Democrats control the White House longer than eight years for the first time since the days of Harry Truman. Above all else, that fear will be the animating feature of the 2016 GOP primary.

By Thomas F. Schaller

May 26, 2015

• Maryland

Debates promise cheap entertainment

• Opinion

GOP parts from tradition of candidates waiting their 'turn'

Times certainly have changed in the Republican Party. Gone are the times when patience was its own reward and loyal leading members would await their turn in the list of aspiring presidential candidates.

By Jules Witcover

May 11, 2015

• Opinion

Anybody can be president?

The old adage that anyone can grow up to be president is being put to the test in this election cycle.

• Maryland

Jonathan Bernstein: Early primaries still shape election

• Opinion

A future-oriented agenda for the GOP's presidential candidates

Instead of nonstop attacks on Obama, GOP candidates should adopt a positive and future-focused agenda.

• Opinion

Cruz zeroes in on his base

Ted Cruz is disregarding the general election by targeting the conservative right wing for the primary, says Jules Witcover.

• Baltimore City Paper

Columnist and activist Dan Savage on his toughest questions, alt-weeklies, and raising a son who might've beaten him up in high school

• Opinion

The race is on to milk Romney's cash cows

The GOP "establishment" is scrambling for money from Mitt Romney backers now that he's out of the 2016 race.

• Opinion

Jeb Bush tastes first success in 2016 nomination stakes

Jeb Bush easily chased off Mitt Romney from running for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, Witcover writes.

• Republican Party

A sorry Republican preview for 2016

The GOP continues to be dominated by right-wing ideologists convinced that purity can triumph over political reality.

• Opinion

Is a Bush-Romney faceoff ahead?

If Jeb Bush's early disclosure that he's clearing the decks for a 2016 presidential bid was meant to scare off all Republican opposition, it appears to have backfired on him.

By Jules Witcover

Jan 19, 2015