Outside the Beltway

It’s possible that Mike Pence won and Donald Trump still lost. It won’t matter.

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Political Science research suggests that the election is, in basic ways, about what we would expect.

The Supreme Court begins another term faced with the prospect of having to spend much of their time dealing with the fact that they’re short a member.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

Today Colombians got to the polls to vote in a plebiscite on the FARC peace accord.

The Republican nominee is threatening our fragile democracy.

America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

It looks like we won’t have Roy Moore to kick around anymore.

A new report concludes that Malaysia Air Flight 17 was brought down by a missile brought into Ukraine from Russia.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

A golf legend passes away.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

A late night attack at a shopping mall, and a suspect still at large have raised tensions in Seattle.

An Oklahoma police officer has been charged in the shooting death of an African-American man while North Carolina authorities continue to balk on releasing a video in a shooting case there.

A new study debunks an old idea.

An unsurprising decision from the Federal Reserve.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

With just forty-nine days left in the campaign, and less than a week before the first debate, the race for President is tighter than ever.

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

The GOP civil war continues…..

An explosion that ended up injuring 29 people interrupted an otherwise quiet Saturday evening in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

Apparently, even people who support Donald Trump don’t believe his claim that he can get Mexico to pay for his border wall.