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Donald Trump is running to be America's Vladimir Putin, says David Horsey.

Donald Trump's latest verbal fiasco unwittingly reveals the intellectual dishonesty of abortion rights opponents

It is interesting to read comments about President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba and the negative reaction from some conservatives, Democrats and Republicans alike, who believed it was inappropriate for the President of the United States to visit the communist state. After all, they say, the Cuban government is run by a dictator who keeps political prisoners, and the Cuban people are not free.

Who will be the next president? Heaven only knows. Both parties seem bent on pushing forward their weakest candidate. There are two Democratic candidates and at the moment three active Republican candidates.

Maryland Democrats may have impact on the presidential race after all

Not sufficiently humiliated by his collapse as the early Republican presidential front runner, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in an attempt to deny the nomination to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's recent day in D.C. revealed an uncommonly modest temperament for the GOP's presidential frontrunner.

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Sen. Ted Cruz's proposal to 'patrol and secure' Muslim neighborhoods in the U.S. would play right into the extremists' hands

As establishment Republicans look to an elusive stop-Trump effort to salvage their party from self-destruction, circumstances have suddenly handed them their best and perhaps only viable vehicle in Gov. John Kasich of Ohio.

The GOP's blind spot

Jules Witcover explores whether John Kasich's campaign could gain traction against Messrs. Cruz and Trump.

Tuesday's primaries may prove decisive, but it's not time to end the nominating contests just yet.

The significance of the latest GOP debate was the conspicuous cease-fire in what had become a circular firing squad among the candidates, tarnishing the party's reputation. It remains to be seen now whether this pivot to the high road will survive throughout the remaining primaries that lead up to the July convention in Cleveland.

The most plausible path to a Trump-free, Republican-controlled White House is consolidation around Mr. Cruz. It's a difficult conclusion for many people, and some may not get there until Sen. Marco Rubio loses the primary in his home state of Florida. And some may never accept Mr. Cruz, opting to bend the knee to Mr. Trump instead.

The movement to stop Mr. Trump could surge next week, but it also could work to his advantage.

The Baltimore Sun and University of Baltimore found businessman Donald Trump leading by 9 point above Sen. Ted Cruz among likely Maryland voters.

Billionaire media mogul and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg says he's decided against mounting a third-party bid for the White House.

Back in the 1960s, Barry Goldwater warned the Republican Party to avoid entanglements with the Religious Right, saying "Mark my words. If and when [the Religious Right] get control of the [Republican] Party, it's going to be a terrible ... problem. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." The party ignored his warning, and the first seeds of factionalism

On the day Mitt Romney called Donald Trump a con man, a fraud and a phony, and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz subsequently ran Mr. Trump through a televised debate buzz saw, the Republican Party may have hit a new low in self-disparagement.

As H.L. Mencken would say, if the people want Donald Trump, they deserve him good and hard.

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

Trump's Super Tuesday gains further test an increasingly fractious political party

Donald Trump has become a master of venom and innuendo that long has been the trademark of the tabloids.

Desperation ran rampant Thursday night in the final Republican presidential debate before Super Tuesday's 11 state primaries. The unuttered battle cry was: Stop Donald Trump!

No matter his views on white supremacy, Donald Trump is now on track to win his party's nomination and the GOP should weep because of it

After starting small, the presidential campaign has exploded into a nationwide contest that on Tuesday could all but decide the Democratic and Republican nominating fights.

Could a unity ticket, a la Reagan-Bush in 1980, in the form of Los Hermanos Cubanos, with Marco Rubio at the top and Ted Cruz as V.P., defeat Trump?

Cruz will be tough on illegal immigrants

March will tell us who the likely nominees are for both parties. There are 30 contests in March. By March 15 Republicans will know if Trump is their likely nominee and new party leader. And by then, Democrats will know who they must rally behind to win in November.

The GOP knows it is only a matter of time before the kookiness among their constituents ruins their brand.

Jules Witcover: Justice Antonin Scalia's greatest influence may yet turn out to be political rather than judicial.

Establishment politics in both major parties are in crisis, says Jules Witcover.

Is it just me, or does anyone else out there think that presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio is going to burst a blood vessel the next time he debates? Though I find him the angriest of the Republican candidates, Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are not far behind in exceeding their rage quotients. Instead of reasoned discussions with the expected "point and counter-point" of a parliamentary debate, what we are witnessing is a level of acrimony uncalled for in today's politics.

Convincing victories by political outsiders in New Hampshire demonstrate without doubt that most voters are disgusted with both political parties. The electorate will probably make one of them — more likely Donald Trump — the next commander in chief.

John Kasich's strong showing in New Hampshire reveals an unlikely twist — an upbeat, moderate message still sells

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

Jonah Goldberg: Those who dismiss Marco Rubio as the "Republican Obama" seem to have forgotten the president was elected twice.

Do you agree with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump that opponent Ted Cruz "stole" first place in the Iowa caucuses through dirty politics?

Ben Carson has left Iowa after crusing to the finish, watching his status among the top Republican presidential candidates slide as the calendar turned to 2016.

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

As the Republican Party seeks an electable presidential nominee amid the current reign of public anger and hostility, it seems oblivious to the depth of its internal crisis.

The Iowa caucuses are a subsidy for the Iowa political establishment. Get rid of that subsidy, and maybe some others will go with it.

While Marylanders have three more months before the state's primary election on April 26, the Times checked in with some of Carroll's elected officials at the county and state level to discuss what candidates they are supporting in the 2016 presidential race.

After months and months of media coverage and debates, we've finally reached the primary season of the presidential election, and the Iowa caucus on Monday will likely set the tone and potentially establish new front-runners in both the Democratic and Republican presidential races.

There's no shortage of reasons for why the right is at war over whether or not to take a flier on Mr. Trump. All of the various establishments and the counter-establishments overpromised and underdelivered in recent years. Mr. Cruz and his supporters accused his fellow politicians of being corrupt sellouts, and so many people believed him, they'd now rather take a gamble on Mr. Trump than back Mr. Cruz, a mere politician.