Outside the Beltway

More than any politician that spoke last night, it was the father of a fallen solider who stole the night.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

After four straight losses, prosecutors in Baltimore are throwing in the towel in the Freddie Gray case.

The second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.

Ignore the focus on discord, most of Bernie’s supporters are supporting Hillary.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

The worst convention in history has given Trump a yuuge bounce.

Democrats will consider changing superdelegate rules, but not as much as Bernie Sanders would like.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

Big change at America’s most-watched cable news network.

A big setback for one of the most restrictive Voter ID Laws in the country.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Veepstakes continues.