Outside the Beltway

This is perhaps the silliest idea ever.

Most Americans think that income inequality is a problem, but they don’t all agree on what to do about it.

The New York Times is on top of the breaking news about Marco Rubio’s driving record for some reason.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

Republicans running for President need to tread carefully in their responses if the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.

Once seen as a rising Republican star, Bobby Jindal’s impending Presidential bid now looks like it’s over before it begins.

After months of “not running,” Jeb Bush will formally enter the Presidential race on June 15th.

Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.

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

Obviously, most of these people are smart enough to realize they can’t possibly win, right?

Does an individual’s changed gender identity alter history?

The Senate passed a bill that renews, and modifies, the Patriot Act

Hillary Clinton is taking a hit in the polls, but it’s unclear if that’s going to matter when 2016 rolls around.

Rand Paul Is at a distinct disadvantage compared to his fellow Republican candidates for President.

The agency that runs Washington D.C.’s mass transit has banned all political ads after Pamela Gellar attempted to run an advertisement featuring a drawing of Mohammed.

Hillary Clinton remains as much the inevitable Democratic nominee as she always has been.

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 “Draft Warren” movement is basically dead.

In a new poll, a majority of Americans identify as “pro-choice,” but a deeper look at the numbers reveals that abortion politics remains as complicated as ever.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

Many provisions of the Patriot Act lapsed at midnight, but apparently the world hasn’t ended.

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

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

The Iowa Straw Poll seems to be dying, and that’s a good thing.

Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

The Senate returns tomorrow to try to pass an extension of the PATRIOT Act before it expires, but it may not be able to do so.

The FCC appears set to “encourage” telephone companies to install robocall blocking technology. Pollsters are panicking.

Marco Rubio seems to be in lockstep with the extreme social conservatives when it comes to same-sex marriage.

The next shoe drops in the Dennis Hastert case.

The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2015, and that suggests the rest of the year isn’t going to be very good either.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

A new poll shows that nearly seven in ten Americans believe that people who are terminally ill should be allowed to end their lives with the help of a doctor.

The race for the Republican nomination is as tight as ever, and so far nobody seems to be emerging as a clear front-runner.

Despite a veto from the state’s Governor, today Nebraska became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Hopefully, others will follow.

Rand Paul is out with one of his more forceful attacks on Republican hawks to date.

A minimum wage for thee, but not for me.

The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.

The President’s plan to give deportation relief to millions of illegal immigrants has hit another legal snag.

The Supreme Court accepted a case that will require the Justices to decide just what it meant when it established the “one person, one vote” rule for drawing legislative districts.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.