Outside the Beltway

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.

Most Americans distrust Clinton. More distrust Trump.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

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.

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

The death penalty appears to be effectively dead in Delaware thanks to a decision by the State Supreme Court.

A Federal Judge in North Dakota has struck down that state’s Voter ID Law, the fourth such decision in less than a month.

Basic trust in process is essential for democratic governance to function and major party nominees ought not be undercutting that trust for cynical gain.

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.

More than any politician that spoke last night, it was the father of a fallen solider who stole the night.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

After four straight losses, prosecutors in Baltimore are throwing in the towel in the Freddie Gray case.

Thirty five years after trying to kill President Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is close to being a free man.

The second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.

Ignore the focus on discord, most of Bernie’s supporters are supporting Hillary.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

The worst convention in history has given Trump a yuuge bounce.

Democrats will consider changing superdelegate rules, but not as much as Bernie Sanders would like.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

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

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

Big change at America’s most-watched cable news network.

A big setback for one of the most restrictive Voter ID Laws in the country.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

The creator of some of the most popular television programming of the 1970s has passed away at the age of 81.

The 2016 Republican Convention is barely halfway over, but some Republicans are already looking ahead to 2020.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

I haven’t yet watched any of the 2016 Republican National Convention but the first day was a beauty.

Another acquittal in Baltimore leads to questions about whether or not prosecutors should continue with the trials against the officers involved in the Freddie Gray matter.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

Another targeted killing aimed at police.

New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady has abandoned his option to appeal the ‘Deflategate’ ruling to the Supreme Court and will serve his four game suspension beginning in September.