Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are getting more and more bizarre.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf thanks to a collection of actions by Iran, the United States, and United Kingdom.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;

As if the situation in the Persian Gulf weren’t already tense enough, the Iranians shot down an American reconnaissance drone late yesterday

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf as the Iran war hawks seem to be winning the battle for the President’s support.

The White House claims to want to talk to Iran but the President’s actions make clear that negotiation is the furthest thing from his mind.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

An argument for an exception to the style guides.

The Democratic Speaker of the House says there will be no charges against the Republican President barring an “overwhelming and bipartisan” consensus.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

Washington said farewell to George H.W. Bush today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Happy Thanksgiving!

155 years ago today, President Lincoln delivered one of the greatest addresses in American history.

In addition to being mandated by the Constitution, birthright citizenship goes to the core of what it means to be an American.

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

Jennifer Rubin wants to build a new political party from scratch.

The Republican Party’s nominee for Senator in Virginia really is as bad as you’ve heard, probably worse.

Mike Pence’s obsequiousness to his master knows no limits.

Unable to get his way with the legislature, New York’s governor is taking a provocative step.

Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade, it would be consistent with his delusions of grandeur.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s time to stop honoring the symbols of a nation of racist traitors.

A new Pentagon proposal would place more discretion in the hands of field commanders, removing the need for Presidential approval.

Happy Thanksgiving!

The real model for Trump’s team is neither Abraham Lincoln nor Andrew Jackson but The Simpson’s Mr. Burns with a room full of Waylon Smithers-types.

Despite resentments, power will transition peacefully from President Obama to President Trump. We should be thankful for that rather than protesting it.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

With two former Republican governors running under its banner, is there such a thing as a “Libertarian Party”?

Woman who liberated slaves to replace slaveholding President who presided over Native American genocide on American currency.

With Donald Trump inching closer to a delegate majority with each primary, it’s obvious that GOP insiders have no idea how to stop Donald Trump.

Ever since last week’s debate, the race for the Republican nomination has come to resemble a schoolyard fight among a bunch of nine year-olds.

The quadrennial fantasy of a brokered convention, which American politics has not seen since 1952, is rearing its head again, and it’s no more likely now than it was when we talked about this four years ago.

A new report finds that the problems at the Secret Service are far deeper than previously known.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Republicans seem to be thinking that Hillary Clinton will be an easier General Election candidate than the evidence suggests she is likely to be.

While a brilliant and accomplished man, he’s absolutely clueless about politics and world affairs.

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

Even if Donald Trump isn’t the Republican nominee in 2016, he could still end up causing real harm to the party’s chances of winning the White House and holding on to the Senate.

The people who continue to claim that the Confederate Flag is about anything other than hatred, racism, and a nation that celebrated slavery are lying to you and to themselves.

The murders in Charleston have revived a debate that should have been over a long time ago.

150 years later, Abraham Lincoln continues to inspire us.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

Today is a day for turkey and football, not a day for politics.

Rather than being a bad thing, negative campaigning is an essential part of our political system.

The Mason-Dixon Line says it starts in Maryland, but that no longer seems to be the case.

Should it matter if a candidate for office isn’t a college graduate? Georgia Republican David Perdue thinks so.