Outside the Beltway

More bigotry in the campaign.

A new poll shows Bernie Sanders gaining traction outside of New Hampshire for the first time.

Two candidates with no experience in elected office are leading the Republican field.

Congress is set to debate the Iran nuclear deal next month, but as far as Europe is concerned the debate is already over.

Thanks to $500,000, Rand Paul bought himself a caucus so he can run for two offices at once.

Hillary Clinton’s own campaign admits she “didn’t think it through” when she decided to use a private email server as Secretary of State.

Trump illustrates the weak nature of our parties.

Erick Erickson has disinvited Donald Trump from the RedState Gathering. What finally pushed him over the edge?

Hillary Clinton has suffered drops in her favorability numbers lately, but that may not mean much for 2016.

Hillary Clinton’s two biggest challengers were ambushed at a progressive political convention over the weekend.

Donald Trump won’t rule out running against the eventual Republican nominee. Will the RNC use this as an excuse to try to force him out of the race?

Depending on who you listen to, it’s either peace in our time or an epic catastrophe.

This should be the end of this story, but it probably won’t be.

House Democrats defied President Obama on an important trade deal today, thus arguably marking the official beginning of his lame duck status.

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

Marco Rubio is the latest Republican Presidential candidate to have a problem giving a coherent answer to a few simple questions about the Iraq War.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.

It’s complicated. And probably not a scandal.

Carly Fiorina, who flopped at Hewlett-Packard and in her lone previous political campaign, wants to be the leader of the free world.

Far from being a positive, Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State provides ample material for those who would attack her over the next eighteen months.

49 “experts in governance and democracy” to call for nonsensical reforms to the presidential debates.

The press corps is already bored.

Seventy years ago, Harry Truman became President in the final months of a war. He wasn’t prepared for it, but most Vice-President’s after him have been.

So, she’s in.

The political media is breathlessly reporting on every event in a campaign that is just beginning, and voters aren’t really paying attention to it at this point.

Hillary Clinton continues to look more inevitable by the day, but Joe Biden doesn’t want to go away just yet.

Do we really want to put another first-term Senator with no executive experience in the Oval Office? Because beyond the mere legal requirements, it does not appear that Ted Cruz is qualified to be President.

The president is the commander-in-chief of the US armed forces. He’s not commander-in-chief of the United States.

So what?

Advantage: Hillary.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama’s Paris Blunder: Part of a Much Bigger Problem,” has posted.

Elizabeth Warren said once again that she’s not running for President, now or in the future. That’s not going to stop the efforts to draft her, though.

The costs of more than a decade of war are far higher than many ever thought, and we’re still paying the price for the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Administration while they were being fought.

The GOP Senate Caucus seems to be split on whether or not to reinstate the filibuster for Presidential and Judicial appointments.

A critic of the imperial presidency becomes an imperial president.

A Presidential candidate’s health and fitness for office are legitimate issues. When it comes to bringing up Hillary Clinton’s age in the context of 2016,, though, Republicans need to proceed with caution.

That word may not mean what you think it means.

An idea whose time has come? Not really.

Mitt Romney 2016? Not as far as his wife is concerned.

Individual polls are likely to be volatile, so don’t pay too much attention to them.

Speaker Boehner wants to delay a vote on the ISIS war until January, but any such debate will be meaningless because Congress has already abdicated responsibility.

Politics, the law, culture, and a very old language collide.

And presidentialism encourages this kind of behavior.