What's both funny and sad is that there is remarkably little intellectual or ideological substance to the current populist fever, says Jonah Goldberg.

Rand Paul emerged from the smoldering debris of the Republican health-care-reform train wreck as a figure of high libertarian principle.

"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."

This was Donald Trump talking to

Maryland's state prosecutor on Thursday charged two Republican strategists with distributing an illegal robocall, considered by many an attempt to smear an openly gay local candidate in 2014.

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.

Donald Trump is piggybacking on the political process to enhance his ability to make millions, says Jules Witcover.

He is not sexist, but substantively and temperamentally Sen. Rand Paul is not qualified to be the Republican presidential nominee

Jeb Bush has a long way to go to win over the tea party crowd, says Jules Witcover.

A prediction: Hillary Clinton may be running against Rand Paul come 2016

Calls for American intervention in Iraq follow on a century of misreading the Middle East.

An organization aiming to "build the statewide liberty movement" in Maryland will host Sen. Rand Paul -- a Kentucky Republican often touted as a potential presidential candidate -- for a fundraiser next month.

Six free public lectures to be held at Johns Hopkins University

Under growing pressure over recently disclosed surveillance programs, the head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers on Tuesday that gathering telephone data and monitoring Internet use has helped to disrupt more than 50 "potential terrorist events" since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Edward Joseph Snowden, the government contractor who revealed the National Security Agency's massive telephone- and Internet-surveillance program, has left few public clues about his life growing up in Crofton and Ellicott City

While we all marvel at the spectacle of Sen. Rand Paul's filibuster, let's not forget the substance of his 13-hour speech on the Senate floor.

President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman. But neither development is likely to push Maryland's governor off the national stage.

The big metrics have been widely reported, but we in the news media haven¿t gone inside the numbers to explore what social media conversations might say about the state of politics, media and the way we communicate today.

Cal Thomas says moderators should reflect ideological -- rather than racial or gender -- diversity

President Obama is a symptom of the nation's ills, not their cause; defeating him alone won't solve the problem.

Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett has become the latest incumbent in Congress to announce he will skip his party's national convention this year to spend time campaigning for reelection, drawing a contrast with other state Republicans as well as his Democratic challenger.