Outside the Beltway

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?

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

After a two week hiatus, the PFF returns,

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.

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

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.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

Protests in Hong Kong have been going on for nine weeks now, but they are reaching a point where the patience of the leaders in Beijing is being tested.

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

Where you can’t be off topic because there IS no topic.

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…

Donald Trump has found a new far-right lunatic to retweet.

Trump’s trip to El Paso in one photo and two videos.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

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The Trump campaign and several other parties have filed lawsuits challenging California’s new law requiring candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested earlier this summer on sex trafficking and abuse charges, has died of what appears to be a suicide in his jail cell.

It looks as if Boris Johnson’s government could be looking to call for a snap election to he held in the immediate aftermath of Brexit.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

In the wake of the back-to-back shootings in Texas and Ohio, a new poll shows increased support for some gun control measures. But we’ve been here before.

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Just over a week after Dan Coats announced he was stepping own as Director of National Intelligence, there are more shakeups at the top of the U.S. intelligence community.

The Trump Administration has effectively declared economic warfare against the government of Nicolas Maduro. It won’t succeed, and will further victimize the already suffering Venezuelan people.

On a day that called for national unity and empathy, President Trump couldn’t help but revert to form.

While Democrats debated among themselves about health care plans that will likely never become law, Republicans were pushing forward with judicial confirmations.

Thanks to a ruling by the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, the island Commonwealth has its third Governor in less than a week.

One week out from the second Democratic debate, Elizabeth Warren appears to be the biggest beneficiary. while Kamala Harris appears to be falling behind.

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel from the Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

In the battle for Senate control in 2020, the conditions appear to favor Republicans. At least for now.

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Beijing is warning protesters in Hong Kong that it’s restraint in the face of protests is not without limit. However, it has few realistic options when it comes to how far it can go.

Jon Huntsman has resigned as Ambassador to Russia ahead of an anticipated bid to return as Utah’s Governor, a position he held 11 years ago.

A Republican State Legislator in Nebraska says things that other Republicans don’t have the courage to say.

Adding to the political headaches for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a new poll shows majority support for Scottish independence in Scotland as the United Kingdom stumbles toward Brexit.