Outside the Beltway

Candidate trumps party in a presidential system.

Wherein an initial attempt to understand something seen on Facebook leads to ruminations on religious liberty.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

News outlets are suddenly finding out that Trump was a cad in 2005. Film at 11.

Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

The erstwhile Republican firebrand and current NeverTrumper shares his personal struggles.

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.

As we head into the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton looks to be in very good shape.

Some early musings on a political fantasy that’s less implausible than it was 12 hours ago.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

The September Jobs Report continues to show an economy that is growing to some degree, but hardly growing as fast as it should be.

Even if Donald Trump loses next month, the political forces inside the GOP he tapped into are likely to remain very powerful.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

Donald Trump is doing worse with white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012.

It’s possible that Mike Pence won and Donald Trump still lost. It won’t matter.

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

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Political Science research suggests that the election is, in basic ways, about what we would expect.

The Supreme Court begins another term faced with the prospect of having to spend much of their time dealing with the fact that they’re short a member.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

Today Colombians got to the polls to vote in a plebiscite on the FARC peace accord.

The Republican nominee is threatening our fragile democracy.

America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

It looks like we won’t have Roy Moore to kick around anymore.

A new report concludes that Malaysia Air Flight 17 was brought down by a missile brought into Ukraine from Russia.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.