Outside the Beltway

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar became the latest Democrat to enter the 2020 race on Sunday.

The longest-serving member of Congress in American history has passed away at the age of 92.

Most Americans oppose the idea of the President using a “national emergency” to get funding for his border wall. Will that matter to him?

While much of the attention in the race for the Democratic nomination to date has been on the left, there is a path forward for a more centrist candidate.

Wearing Donald Trump’s famous campaign symbol creates a presumption of ill intent. Is that fair?

President Trump appears to be backing away from the idea of declaring a national emergency to get his wall built. But the other options he’s considering aren’t much better.

California is set up throw a huge curve ball into the 2020 Presidential nomination fight.

One of the strongest climate regulations in the country is almost certainly unconstitutional.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

Protests that have killed four and injured hundreds have been rewarded and show no sign of ending.

President Trump’s job approval numbers continue to be worse than those of any President since the end of World War Two.

Even as its leader continues to deny the reality of Global Climate Change, the Trump Administration has released an utterly devastating report on the impact of such change over the course of the coming decades.

President Trump’s latest attack on the Federal Judiciary prompted a rare rebuke from the Chief Justice of the United States.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

Bernie Sanders could find repeating the success of 2016 in 2020 may not be so easy.

A glance at Memeorandum demonstrates a problem that we’ve mentioned numerous times over the years.

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

Jennifer Rubin wants to build a new political party from scratch.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

The former New York City Mayor is prepared to spend $80 million to help Democrats take back Congress this year.

Not surprisingly, Canadians aren’t very happy about President Trump’s attacks on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Hurricane Trump hit the G-7 this weekend, and the damage it left behind will take years to clean up.

As he headed to the G-7 Summit, President Trump threw our ostensible allies another curve.

CNN reports that the Interior Secretary, who claims to be a “geologist,” merely has a geology degree.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

Two seemingly contradictory essays out today highlight the exhausting political conversation environment.

Netflix no longer offers President Frank Underwood. They’re lining up a replacement.

How ‘tainted’ must a funder be before a charity is obliged to reject the donation?

China’s Xi Jinping solidified his hold on power well into the next decade over the weekend.

Presidents are much more constrained in issuing and rolling back regulations than they or the public think.

President Trump has alienated America’s allies and friends, and they are acting accordingly.

President Trump’s job approval has improved slightly, but the numbers remain historically low for a newly elected President.

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.

A bit of wishful thinking in the wake of Steve Bannon’s ouster.

New polling indicates that the Affordable Care Act has gained in popularity with the American public, while Republican reform efforts are viewed overwhelmingly negatively.

Donald Trump’s golf courses are displaying something that literally is fake news.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

Only 28% of Americans support President Trump’s decision to back out of the Paris Accord, but it’s not clear that this will harm him politically.

President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords was neither the big win his supporters claim nor the disaster his critics fear.

Reports indicate that President Trump is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise and withdraw the U.S. from the accord on climate change reached in Paris in 2015.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip went about as badly as you’d expect it would.

Predicting election outcomes is different than predicting impeachment.

President Trump reverses a decision made by President Obama just over a year ago.