ted cruz

• Opinion

After the Kavanaugh hearing, throw all the senators out

Senators of both parties disgraced themselves in the Kavanaugh hearings.

• Maryland

Senators want to know if CSX plans to revive Howard Street Tunnel project

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

• Maryland

When liberals are rooting for Jeff Sessions, you know something's wrong

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

• Opinion

Rodricks: Expressing shame in an era of shamelessness

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

By Dan Rodricks

Apr 24, 2018

• Maryland

Commentary: Aggressively liberal professors are pushing conservative students toward Trump

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

• Colleges and Universities

Aggressively liberal professors are pushing conservative students toward Trump

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.

• Opinion

Wall isn't a lifesaver, it's a boondoggle

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

• Opinion

Roy Moore deserves to be ousted

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

• Opinion

GOP base is beyond Trump's control

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

• Maryland

Edelman: Congress has work cut out for it

Edelman: Congress has work cut out for it

• Opinion

Health care reform, cloaked in secrecy, gets lukewarm reception

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

• Opinion

10 onscreen moments that paved the road to the White House

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

• Baltimore City Paper

Myth trumps fact in David Fincher's enigmatic 'Zodiac'

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

• Opinion

Robert B. Reich: Trump's three biggest enablers

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

• Maryland

Letter: Trump changes mind too much to be trusted

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

• Opinion

Playing the Trump card

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

• Opinion

Bathroom advice

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

• Maryland

Culleton: Trump victory in November will ensure chaos

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.

• Opinion

Republicans are architects of their present misfortune

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.

• Opinion

The GOP nominee

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

• Opinion

Republican effort to stop Trump ends in failure

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

• Opinion

Boehner was Judas

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

• Maryland

Morning Report: What's happening today in Carroll County

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

• Maryland

Zirpoli: Trump supporters ignore his fabrications

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.

• Maryland

Edelman: Leading GOP candidates lack governing chops

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.

• Opinion

Hoop dreams

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

• Opinion

Cruz/Fiorina pairing is a stunt worthy of 'House of Cards'

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

• Opinion

A Hail Mary, full of delusion

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

• Opinion

Kasich is the problem-solver

Maryland Republicans should vote for John Kasich for president

• Politics

Donald Trump wins Maryland Republican presidential primary

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

By Erin Cox

Apr 27, 2016

• Maryland

Clinton, Trump win Maryland in primary elections

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.

• Opinion

Kasich for president

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

• Maryland

As primary election day nears in Harford, GOP leaders keep their distance from backing a presidential candidate

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.

• Politics

Donald Trump, Bill Clinton campaign in Maryland ahead of primary

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.

• Politics

Donald Trump planning rally in Hagerstown on Sunday

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

• Opinion

Comeback kids in New York

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

• Elections

Donald Trump looks ahead to November

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

• Opinion

Whining Donald Trump failed to learn the rules of the political game

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

• Politics

Donald Trump to visit Worcester County on Wednesday

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

• Politics

Ted Cruz rallies supporters at Towson American Legion post

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

• Opinion

Clinton, Sanders trade blows at the brawl in Brooklyn

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

• Politics

Ted Cruz to visit Towson

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

• Opinion

Ice may be thawing between Cruz, GOP leaders

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.

• Opinion

Republican leadership void foretells chaos ahead

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

• Politics

John Kasich, campaigning in Md., says Republican convention will choose electable nominee

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

• Opinion

Cruz is worse than Trump

Demos should be careful what they wish for

• Opinion

What about Kasich?

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

• Opinion

Detouring the Trump and Clinton steamrollers

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

• Opinion

The dumbing down of a generation

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

• Opinion

The GOP establishment has hijacked the party

The GOP establishment has hijacked the party