Outside the Beltway

Clinton is getting no special treatment by the standards of her high-powered peers.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

Donald Trump is losing something much more important to him that an election.

Candidate trumps party in a presidential system.

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

The Republican nominee is threatening our fragile democracy.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

This is not exactly what Rick Perry had hoped he’d be doing this fall.

Early indications are the Ruth Bader Ginsburg and other older Justices don’t plan on leaving any time soon.

Did Donald Trump really suggest assassination as a political weapon, even as a joke? It sure sounds like it.

If you think that once elected Trump will be corralled by cooler heads and experts, I would submit to you that this week underscores this will not be the case.

The nature of US parties means that Trump more or less is the GOP at the moment, and hence the GOP will do nothing about Trump.

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

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

Comments on a pro-Trump (well, sorta) column.

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

Thanks to a 4-4 tie, President Obama’s temporary immigration relief program remains blocked by a Federal Court Injunction.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

After initially expressing doubts about his candidacy, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has lined up behind Donald Trump.

Donald Trump would be a horrible president. That doesn’t justify Hillary Clinton’s bad acts.

Regrets, he’s had a few…….

In the immortal words of the Fonz, I was wr-wr-wr-wr . . . not exactly right.

All of which leads to a discussion of electoral rules.

The Republican frontrunner doesn’t want newspapers to be able to write negative stories about him.

If Marco Rubio can’t win in his home state, where can he win?

Republicans are putting much on the line in their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination from President Obama.

Donald Trump says he might sue Ted Cruz over his citizenship if Cruz continues attacking him.

The end of Webbmentum is here, my friends.

As Michael Bloomberg flirts with the idea of running for President, a poll finds very little enthusiasm for the idea.

Donald Trump displays some appalling ignorance about an important part of America’s military, but his supporters are unlikely to care.

Marine Le Pen suffered setbacks in the second round of regional voting on Sunday, but the party still seems likely to become more popular in the coming years.

The juxtaposition of two headlines at memeorandum is amusing.

Semantics aside, Carson has a clear relationship with a company whose products are nothing but junk science.

Pure fantasy.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders may think otherwise, but many Americans do care about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State.

With time running out for him to make a decision, a new report shows how deeply Vice President Biden has been in stirring up the speculation that is now surrounding him.

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

One week after the second Republican debate, Donald Trump is still at the top of the GOP field, and that doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon.

Vice-President Biden continues to rise in the polls even though he has yet to actually enter the race for President.