Outside the Beltway

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.

Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

A golf legend passes away.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

A late night attack at a shopping mall, and a suspect still at large have raised tensions in Seattle.

An Oklahoma police officer has been charged in the shooting death of an African-American man while North Carolina authorities continue to balk on releasing a video in a shooting case there.

A new study debunks an old idea.

An unsurprising decision from the Federal Reserve.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.