Back in the dark ages, around 1970, the prelates of the three Roman Catholic archdiocese and diocese that straddle Maryland – Baltimore, Washington, D.C.,…
In Washington, D.C., the newly repopulated Democrats and the proportionately diminished Republicans are behaving like two dogs, circling and sniffing, trying to decide whether…
Recall, if you will, the arrival of the circus in town and you have a pretty good idea of what elections used to be…
Just what, it is fair to ask, is Gov. Larry Hogan (R) up to? Is it an ego trip, or simply a mock? Is…
There’s a fundamental mean streak running through the Republican Party that Democrats lack. The GOP’s operating manual is simple: Whatever it takes. The pathology…
Ben Jealous is a sitting duck for this gilded age and a trio of telltale polls. The economy is roaring, jobs are plentiful and…
Call it what you will, a hankering for the bad old days or just plan nostalgia, but if the old political bosses were still…
To many voters, the gist of the Trump administration’s policies to “Make America Great Again” appear simple to decode: They will either poison us,…
One among many old sayings in politics is this time-tested cautionary note: If you’re going to have a tough general election, you’d better have…
Debates are hard to win and easy to lose. Debates rarely change many minds unless there’s a major flub. Research over the decades has…