Outside the Beltway

Massive boycotts and protests likely spell the end of Tim Wolfe’s tenure as president.

To no real surprise, the Obama Administration has rejected the application to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. It is likely to remain an issue in the upcoming Presidential campaign, though.

In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.

Another piece of news that all but guarantees the fate of the Keystone XL project will not be resolved before President Obama leaves office.

With only a handful of opposition, Paul Ryan was easily elected the 62nd Speaker of the House.

Republicans seem to be thinking that Hillary Clinton will be an easier General Election candidate than the evidence suggests she is likely to be.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden may or may not be close to a decision about running for President, and he may or may not be running.

With Congress set to come back from its recess, attention is once again turning to the race for Speaker and one Paul Ryan, Congressman from Wisconsin.

A woman who has been running for President for at least eight years is apparently having trouble explaining why she wants to be President.

NASA had a potentially significant announcement today.

When did “politics” become a dirty word?

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

Most of the Republican candidates for President would rather support a lawbreaker than the Rule of Law. The American people should judge them accordingly.

In a speech in Florida, Joe Biden spoke about his possible run for the White House, and gave a very big hint that he’s leaning toward staying out of the race.

The August Jobs Report was positive, but weak, calling into question the Federal Reserve’s apparent plan to raise interest rates this month.

International relations prof mostly assign readings by male scholars. Female profs are slightly less likely to do so.

Another poll confirms the fact that Americans of all political stripes continue to hold Congress is disdain.

Four months in jail, no opportunity for bail, no trial, no access to mental health care. And, now Jamycheal Mitchell is dead.

Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”

Another poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Iranian nuclear deal, but the effort to defeat it in Congress is still likely to fail.

Like many Republicans, Jeb Bush continues to be willfully blind to the truth about the Iraq War.

It’s a Donald Trump debate, where the facts are made up and the truth doesn’t matter.

A Republican political consultant says Hillary Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination.

The NYT paints the longshot senator as a happy warrior trying to win the White House by doing it his way.

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

It’s easier for an American citizen to go to Iran or North Korea than it is for them to go to Cuba, That’s insane.

The nine-year-old ‘Army Strong’ ad campaign is ended.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

A new Michigan law allows religious-affiliated adoption agencies to turn away parents for religious reasons, and it seems fairly obvious what the target is in this case.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

I have been reading, mostly in passing, a number of pieces about an alleged new climate on college campuses in which students are raising significant complaints due to difficult or emotionally sensitive material. The latest example did not impress me.

A new poll shows that Americans have moved to the left on a wide variety of social issues.

Lindsey Graham is the latest entrant into the Presidential race, but it’s hard to see how he gets out of the bottom of the polls.

The New York Times really, really wants a horse race for the Democratic nomination.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

A new Gallup poll puts support for same-sex marriage above 60% for the first time ever.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer suggests that his fellow Congressmen and Senators are underpaid at $174,000 per year.

Republicans could learn a few things from the Tory victory in the recent British elections, but they are in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions.

George Stephanopoulos’ s ties to the Clinton’s have always raised questions about his objectivity. Now, there’s further reason to doubt that he can play fair when the Clinton’s are part of the story he’s covering.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

Most managers work beyond 9-to-5.

Mike Huckabee’s back, but the 2008 magic is gone.

It’s complicated. And probably not a scandal.

Former President Clinton doesn’t seem to get it. Or, does he?