Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

I haven’t yet watched any of the 2016 Republican National Convention but the first day was a beauty.

Another acquittal in Baltimore leads to questions about whether or not prosecutors should continue with the trials against the officers involved in the Freddie Gray matter.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

Another targeted killing aimed at police.

New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady has abandoned his option to appeal the ‘Deflategate’ ruling to the Supreme Court and will serve his four game suspension beginning in September.

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

Predictably, the latest effort to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination has ended in failure.

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

Justice Ginsburg walks back her comments about the presumptive Republican nominee.

We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

Tom Brady and the N.F.L. Player’s Association suffered another legal setback in their appeal of the ‘Deflategate’ suspension.

Once again, the GOP platform is turning into a surrender to social conservatives on issues such as same-sex marriage and transgender rights.

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

Well that took long enough.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

A quick succession of events this morning means that Theresa May will become Britain’s Prime Minister far sooner than anticipated.

The Dallas shooting spree ended with police killing the perpetrator with a drone. I’m okay with that.

A new poll suggests that the decision not to bring charges related to her use of a private email server will likely have only a minimal impact on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Regardless of the outcome of the Conservative Party’s leadership race, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will be a woman.

A good month for job growth in June.

A horrific night in Dallas.

Two cases quite a distance from each other, but in both police seem to be acting with a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ attitude, especially when it comes to African-American men.

If you listened to politicians or the media, you wouldn’t know that homicide rates are at a level unseen since 1963.

If the allegations of a new lawsuit are true, things are truly lurid behind the scenes at Fox News Channel.

Early panic over the Brexit referendum was an overreaction. It’s time for statesmanship.

NASA’s latest probe has begun a two year mission to study the Solar System’s biggest planet.

American forces will continue to stay in Afghanistan well after Barack Obama leaves office thanks to a new policy announced today.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

As President Obama starts campaigning for Hillary Clinton, a perennial question arises.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

Marines, especially female Marines, will be allowed to be heavier in the new year.

Truth? Donald Trump can’t handle the truth.

Mississippi tried to provide special protection to opponents of same-sex marriage and transgender rights. A Federal District Court Judge, properly, finds the law to be unconstitutional.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

The wave of Ramadan attacks continues, including a strike near the second holiest site in Islam.