Outside the Beltway

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

President Trump’s hand-picked Federal Reserve Chairman is stating the blindingly obvious about the ongoing trade war, so of course the President labeled him an enemy.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton is ending a Presidential bid that few people were paying attention to.

Once again, President Trump is doing Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

Republican candidates are lining up to take on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even though the odds of a Republican winning in her district are essentially zero.

Republicans from around the country want Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for Senate in Kansas. Because they’re afraid they can’t win without him.

Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are getting more and more bizarre.

Mark Kelly, and the Democratic Party, got some good news in the latest Senate poll out of Arizona.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who dropped out of the race for President just last week, is running for Senate in his home state.

As many as twelve candidates for the Democratic nomination may not qualify for the next debate. They should use that as an opportunity to get out of a race they clearly aren’t going to win.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is the latest candidate to drop ou of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He won’t be the last.

A new poll shows Donald Trump losing to top Democrats in head-to-head races.

Former Vice-President Biden has dropped his first television ad in Iowa, and it touches on his strongest selling point.

Another day, another Trump temper tantrum.

President Trump just tossed a hand grenade into the firestorm that American politics.

The Trump Administration has apparently decided that it will not be providing the flu vaccine to migrants being held in facilities at the southern border.

As he has in the past, President Trump has backed away from support for any gun control measures in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

A new poll shows solid support for free trade and opposition to the President’s tariffs, suggesting strongly that Trump is losing the public relations battle on this issue.

More than five years after the fact, the NYPD officer who applied an illegal chokehold that resulted in the death of Eric Garner has finally been fired.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.

The junior Senator from Massachusetts could be facing a big challenge in 2020.

Joe Biden continues to lead the Democratic field but Elizabeth Warren has slipped into second while Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris appear to be slipping.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

A defense of a modest philosophy of judicial interpretation.

This timeline is just so weird.

An incident this week in Arkansas is just the latest example of a depressing and dangerous trend.

Joe Biden continues to have a strong lead in the Palmetto State, thanks largely to strong support from African-American voters.

Continuing the conversation from James Joyner’s post.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?

Beto O’Rourke is once again rejecting the idea of running for Senate instead of President.

President Trump wants to make a deal.

We won’t have Hickenlooper to kick around anymore.

After urging from President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has barred two Muslim-American Congressmen from visiting Israel. It is a foolish and outrageous decision.

Another poll in the wake of this month’s mass shootings shows increased support for several gun control measures. That doesn’t mean Congress will act, though.

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to the United States, especially manufacturing jobs. It hasn’t worked out that way.

Congressman Steve King has some rather unique views about human history.

President Trump is delaying implementation of his recently announced tariffs on Chinese goods.

There are hints that former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper could abandon his seemingly doomed Presidential bid to run for Senate.

Rich candidates are buying artificial donors to stay in the contest.

The Federal Budget Deficit rose 27% in July, putting it on course for the $1 trillion by the end of September.

Economic analysts are growing increasingly worried that the President’s trade war could push the world economy into recession, and take the American economy along with it.

The 76-year-old Democratic frontrunner’s penchant for gaffes is raising questions about his fitness to govern.

A Federal Court has ruled once again in favor of a transgender student in Virginia who was prevented from using the bathroom conforming to their gender identity.

Under the Trump Administration, the American commitment to human rights around the world is basically dead.

President Trump says he’s thinking about commuting the sentenced of Rod Blagojevich, who has served seven years of the fourteen-year sentence he received for public corruption.

Trump’s words on Monday versus, well, almost every other time he speaks…