Outside the Beltway

Boris Johnson seems to be the leader in the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader. Whether that’s a good thing is another question.

Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.

Republican Congressman Justin Amash has always been a rebel within his own party, now he’s making that even more apparent.

America’s leading motivational speaker and self-help guru is coming under fire.

Gone are ‘climate change’ and ‘skeptic.’ In are ‘global heating’ and ‘denier.’

An absurd theory for an absurd time.

So far Joe Biden has run a gaffe-free campaign. But how long can it last?

The university has bowed to student pressure.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

The peril of not yet running for President include not yet having a campaign staff in place.

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

Another white supremacist attack raises disturbing questions about our information environment.

The Southern Law Poverty Center has fired its co-founder for vaguely-specified reasons.

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Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

Early tomorrow morning, NASA and SpaceX will be testing a crucial part of America’s return to manned space flight.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.

The American Civil Liberties Union has joined the list of groups with lawsuits against the President’s declaration of a “national emergency” at the southern border.

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

The President’s second State of the Union began and ended with calls for unity. In between, it was filled with the divisive partisanship that has marked his Presidency.

Virgnia’s governor has to resign. But not because of some 35-year-old photos.

AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and TimeWarner is forcing price hikes that are driving customers away at a rapid clip.

There’s a way that Congress and the President could make future government shutdowns impossible, but they probably won’t do it.

The government shutdown is beginning to negatively impact the public’s perception of the health of the economy.

Despite their rhetoric, Republicans in Congress have shown through their own inaction that they don’t really support the President’s border wall.

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

Another piece of humanity has left the Solar System.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Glenn Reynolds announced via his USA Today column that he has deleted his Twitter account.

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.

The evidence that the GOP lost the midterms because of public repudiation of President Trump is overwhelming. The GOP will either accept this and learn from it, or they will not.

One of the last Republican strongholds in California is now completely blue.

Beto O’Rourke should consider running again in 2020, but not for President.

Whether as candidates or as voters, Democrats can thank women for many of their victories on Tuesday.

Bret Stephens’ piece this week adds up to not much.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s name may be unfamiliar, but he’s looking to change that.

Trump’s words matter.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

More explosive devices sent to prominent Trump critics, including Robert DeNiro and Joe Biden, have been located.

The Saudi Arabian Government is finally acknowledging that Jamal Khashoggi is dead. Their explanation for his death, though, is too absurd to be believed.

The Saudis are now apparently getting ready to push out a fall guy for the death of Jamal Khashoggi, an explanation as absurd as all the others they have offered to date.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

A once iconic American retailer appears to be on its last legs.

Hope Hicks jumps from one pro-Trump venue to another.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?