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As President Trump approaches the end of his first year in office, a world of potential woe awaits him, says Jules Witcover.

Senate Republicans appeared poised to approve a major tax overhaul that would deliver President Donald J. Trump one of his first legislative victories while potentially changing the way thousands of Marylanders file their annual income taxes.

Even if Senate Republicans and the Trump administration gut Obamacare, Maryland can preserve its benefits here.

Analysts say hundreds of Facebook ads targeted at users in Maryland in the months following the city’s riots in 2015 might have been a dry run for the broader, national Russian social media campaign that followed.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin isn't a fool, but he is a knave, says Robert Reich.

Gov. Larry Hogan continued his bitter battle against a Democratic-backed sick leave bill he vetoed last spring by vowing to introduce what he called a "compromise" measure of his own.

Baltimore’s congressional representatives vowed Monday to fight a Republican tax bill they said would damage the city and state, and encouraged residents to speak out, as well.

The sweeping Republican tax legislation moving through Congress could end a tax-exempt funding mechanism that local governments use for transportation projects, affordable housing and student loans.

Donald Trump doesn't act in the interests of his supporters, but they don't seem to care.

Alabama Republican Roy Moore is entitled to neither the innocence presumption nor a trial before the Senate election next month. What Mr. Moore is entitled to when it comes to weighing allegations of sexual misconduct is fairness – and it will be up to the voters to mete that out.

Proposed tax cuts, as well as the attempt to kill Obamacare, are headed for considerable resistance in the Senate, says Jules Witcover.

If we are serious about trying to change society away from the oppression of patriarchy, now is the time for all good and intellectually honest media workers to hold their nerve, stay focused and not start making excuses and applying double standards when they see someone they had admired go down.

Maryland's Cardin and Van Hollen must fight against the Senate's horrific tax plan.

Trump is ill-advised to criticize another man's sexual misconduct considering his own history.

The Grand Old Party remains hung up on the false belief that most Americans don't want Obamacare, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Sex, politics, religion and nepotism; they make a fierce combination. Let's start with nepotism.

President Trump is appointing far-right judges whose decisions will be felt for generations, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

The rights of women and girls in this country must finally be recognized by this great nation, a contributor to The Aegis Open Forum writes.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is 'uniquely qualified' to become the next president, says Jules Witcover.

The only reason Trump got elected is because he wasn't Hillary Clinton

President Trump stands to be personally enriched by GOP tax rewrite.

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

The Senate GOP tax plan may actually be worse than the House version, frightening as that is to contemplate.

If Washington is a swamp, Moore may represent its more vile creature yet.

U.S. Attorney Sessions promises prosecution and politics won't mix but who believes him?

Even before the ink on the Constitution was dry, men in power have taken advantage of women. For the most part, those activities were pretty much relegated to the scandal sheets of their times, but in today’s wired world, accusations of sexual improprieties spread at the speed of light.

The sexual behavior of American politicians and celebrities has been a staple of news stories from the beginning of the Republic. But it seems to have approached a peak this year with the case of Judge Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, and other such scandals.

Gov. Larry Hogan called Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore “unfit for office” on Saturday following sexual misconduct allegations made against Moore by four women.

The Maryland Democratic Party challenged the state’s sole Republican in Congress on Friday to denounce Alabama GOP senate nominee Roy Moore.

Gov. Larry Hogan proposes elimination of state income tax on military retirement pay.

Both of America's major political parties are in danger of collapse

Are we so caught up in internal bickering over how Hillary got the Democratic nomination that we'll let the person who may have colluded with the Russians to get the presidency have his people continue to have their majority in the House and Senate? We must turn our fight to the other party.

Jules Witcover made a point with which I totally agree. His point was that Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and Robert Corker, who have been outspoken in their opposition to President Trump’s agenda and methods, should continue the fight to keep the GOP from becoming an extremist party.

State legislation to allow Harford County Sheriff's Office deputies to collectively bargain over salaries and benefits has been pre-filed in the House and Senate, as deputies' unions, the sheriff and county government are in agreement to move forward.

Robert B. Reich shows why the average American's tax bill and other expenses will rise under the Republican's $5.8 trillion tax "cut" plan.

Yes, Hillary Clinton's campaign helped fund the research that led to the infamous Trump-Russia dossier. But that's about the exact opposite of colluding with Russia.

Sen. Jeff Flake's speech decrying President Donald Trump won't have the effect he wanted, but it could be a step on the difficult path to a new, functional political reality.

Big money is buying giant tax cuts, allowing Russia to interfere in future elections, and killing Americans, says Robert Reich.

Zirpoli: Trump should spend less time insulting fellow Republicans, staff

Musician Kid Rock announced tour dates for his "Greatest Show on Earth Tour," including a stop at Baltimore's Royal Farms Arena in March.

Even without results from the Russia investigation, Donald Trump may be impeachable, writes Jules Witcover.

Fired White House aide Steve Bannon is a quintessential Ferris Bueller, says Jonah Goldberg.

Cal Thomas asks: What is the point of having a Republican majority if it can't advance conservative policies?

President Donald Trump has promised a tax cut that is all candy and no diet.

In conversations with the press, Donald Trump casts as much light on his contradictions as on his convictions, says Jules Witcover.

Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, failed Thursday to preserve a state and local tax deduction in the Republican plan to overhaul the tax code.

Donald Trump is unraveling and Republicans need to face it, says Robert B. Reich.

Since 2007, our Maryland General Assembly has repeatedly failed to pass legislation that would empower a woman to petition the court to deny her assailant any rights to the child conceived in rape.

Despite controlling the White House and both branches of Congress, the GOP can't get much done, says Jonah Goldberg.

President Donald Trump says Obamacare is imploding. If so, it's only because he's working so hard to make it so.