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Senators of both parties disgraced themselves in the Kavanaugh hearings.

Maryland's U.S. senators say the Howard Street Tunnel project is still doable and want to know CSX's thinking on it.

By Jeff Barker

Sep 6, 2018

How on earth did Jeff Sessions — Jeff Sessions! — find himself abandoned by the right and embraced by the left?

Former Baltimore County schools superintendent Dallas Dance expressed shame, something increasingly rare in the Trump era.

By Dan Rodricks

Apr 24, 2018

For the past four years at Loyola University Maryland I have come to find lifelong friendships; amazing professors, who were instrumental in my being able to

For the past four years at Loyola University Maryland I have come to find lifelong friendships, amazing mentors and, by the grace of God, a date. I was also able to discover the reason why Donald Trump is president: Overly liberal professors pushing conservatives to the edge.

Trump uses border patrol death to buttress wall; it's a losing argument.

Moore isn't the first political candidate with a history of sexual misconduct but that doesn't get him a pass now.

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

Edelman: Congress has work cut out for it

After weeks of closed-door deliberations on their version of Obamacare repeal and replacement bill, Senate Republicans and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are peddling it to a reluctant flock.

By Jules Witcover

Jun 26, 2017

Media have been playing a larger and larger role in presidential politics, but this was the year that the

By David Zurawik

Dec 23, 2016

Ok, so Ted Cruz does not once make an appearance in “Zodiac.” But that ridiculous meme which circulated this past election and posed the Tea Party-pushing

Donald Trump poisoned America with the help of the GOP, the media and the Democratic Party, says Robert Reich.

Who is the real Donald Trump? Has anyone figured it out other than Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio, who called him a con man and a liar? First, Trump has

Political conservatives can get more by working with Trump than by keeping their distance

Obama administration's recent advisory to schools on transgender rights has been twisted into something it wasn't by the usual demagogues

The primary season is ending as it begun, with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the presumptive nominees. Current polls show Clinton with a comfortable lead. But polls this early in the game are notoriously unreliable.

The damage the GOP has done itself is manifest, but the bigger concern is the damage the party has done to this country, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Presumptive Republican nominee may seek political unity but he's unlikely to find it

Donald Trump's convention manager has promised a more disciplined candidate for the general election; don't bet the rent money on it.

Republican voters lost faith and John Boehner had a lot to do with it

The Morning Report is a quick roundup of links to stories that Carroll County residents are talking about today.

It is interesting to listen to Donald Trump supporters talk about how they are voting for him because Hillary Clinton can't be trusted and Sen. Ted Cruz is "Lyin' Ted." Yet they seem to be deaf to the daily falsehoods coming out of their candidate's mouth.

When I was young, I dreamed of managing the Dodgers. Being a manager, though, demands that you actually know something about baseball. And so it is with managing the most complex organization in the world, the government of the United States. Last week, we came to realize that neither of the two leading Republican candidates has the chops to step into the Oval Office.

Ted Cruz warned that his campaign is headed toward a cliff but Indiana voters seem uninterested in saving him

Trailing GOP presidential hopeful Ted Cruz played his own "woman card" by choosing Carly Fiorina as his potential V.P.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's selection of former campaign rival Carly Fiorina to be his running mate, when he has not even come close to defeating Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, is an exercise in pure delusion.

By Jules Witcover

May 2, 2016

Maryland Republicans should vote for John Kasich for president

Front-runner and billionaire mogul Donald Trump further solidified his lead in the Republican presidential nominating contest Tuesday.

By Erin Cox

Apr 27, 2016

Billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump further solidified his lead in the Republican presidential nominating contest Tuesday, racking up victories in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Among Republican candidates, only Gov. Kasich has the temperament and experience to serve as the nation's president

Headlining the primary election ballots in Harford County and the rest of Maryland Tuesday are what have so far been those hotly contested national battles for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations.

Donald Trump, who polls show has a significant advantage in the state, rallied thousands of supporters in a massive aircraft hangar in Hagerstown. Former President Bill Clinton, meanwhile, took to the pulpit at African American churches in Baltimore on behalf of his wife.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is holding a second campaign event in Maryland, rallying supporters at the airport in Hagerstown.

By Ian Duncan

Apr 22, 2016

There is a no-stop-Hillary effort comparable to stop-Trump campaign, notes Jules Witcover.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump decried what he called a "rigged" primary system, but focused mainly on the general election as he campaigned for the first time in Maryland on Wednesday — a state with the potential to help clear his path to the GOP nomination.

By John Fritze

Apr 20, 2016

Donald Trump claims to be a smart businessman, yet did not know the U.S. presidential nominating procedures.

Republican front runner Donald Trump will hold a rally in Worcester County on Wednesday -- marking the front runner's first visit to Maryland since last year.

By John Fritze

Apr 18, 2016

Republican president hopeful Ted Cruz rallied supporters at a Towson American Legion post Monday afternoon, reminding them that for once Marylander voters' primary ballots actually matter and urging them to help him stop Donald Trump from securing the party's nomination.

By Ian Duncan

Apr 18, 2016

The gloves were off the other night in the latest debate between Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The verbal slugfest confirmed not only their personal dislike, but also their basic disagreement on how each proposes to govern if elected in November.

By Jules Witcover

Apr 18, 2016

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will make his debut campaign appearance in Maryland on Monday afternoon at a rally in Towson, his campaign said Sunday.

By John Fritze

Apr 17, 2016

Like Perseus pulling Medusa's head out of a sack to petrify his enemies, Ted Cruz has been able to dangle the prospect of a President Trump to strike fear in the hearts of even his biggest detractors.

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

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, making his first campaign swing through Maryland on Wednesday, predicted that his party would reevaluate the race when it meets in Cleveland for its national convention this summer and will choose a nominee who can win the presidency in the general election.

By John Fritze

Apr 13, 2016

Demos should be careful what they wish for

Ted Cruz isn't the only alternative to Donald Trump but he might be the most likely to win

The Democratic debatehas also begun to send off sparks, with Hillary Clinton saying she is "sick of"Bernie Sanders misrepresenting her positions.

Students of old discussed philosophy, studied foreign languages and communed with nature. Today's young people? Not so much.

The GOP establishment has hijacked the party