Outside the Beltway

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

America’s mayor talks like a snake oil salesman/conman.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

A sad day for those of us who grew up watching Big Bird, Kermit, and the rest of the Muppets.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

Chick-Fil-A is ending its charitable giving to organizations that oppose LGBT rights, and conservatives are predictably freaking out.

More good news for Mayor Pete.

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a case from Connecticut filed by the parents of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

Twitter is banning all political advertising from its site. It is a largely meaningless decision, but it’s still a bad idea.

Bowing to Immense political pressure to pay college athletes will dramatically change the game.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly is posing a big challenge to Senator Martha McSally in Arizona.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

A big haul for the GOP.

Bernie Sanders has slipped in the polls but retains his ability to raise money.

Canada is headed for a new election at the end of October as Justin Trudeau finds his government daling with a scandal.

Rich candidates are buying artificial donors to stay in the contest.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

Tulsi Gabbard has filed a seemingly frivolous lawsuit against Google due to a temporary suspension of her advertising account.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

After weeks of protests and years of frustrations, Ricardo Rosselló, the Governor of Puerto Rico, announced last night that he will be resigning from office.

Volkswagen recently announced that it was ending production of one of its most famous and recognizable models. The last Beetle rolls off the assembly line tomorrow.

Virginia has finally repealed a dumb and unconstitutional restriction on how bars could advertise Happy Hours.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

One of America’s fist celebrity CEO’s has passed away at the age of 94.

President Trump And the RNC raised a record amount in the second quarter of the year.

We all know the Internet broke the monopoly on classified advertising. Here’s the rest of the story.

For the first time in more than thirty years, NASA is preparing to unveil a program to allow civilians to travel to the International Space Station.

Two weeks into his campaign, Joe Biden continues to build an impressive lead in polling at the state and national levels.

Its explanation for why its paywall is coming down 3 days leads us to an obvious question.

A Federal Appeals Court recently found that chalking the tires of a car parked in a public place is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It’s not at all clear that this decision is correct.

After just a year in office, Oliver North is out as President of the National Rifle Association as the group faces an ongoing series of scandals centered around Wayne LaPierre and others.

Larry Sabato lays out a quite plausible path.

After fifteen years of trying to support the site with advertising, we’re going in a new direction.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

Breaking up is hard to do.

Military culture is a strange beast.

A racist scholar took some fascinating photos of an enslaved man in 1860. Now, his descendants want the rights to them.

Roy Moore, who lost a Special Election to replace Jeff Sessions in 2017 after being hit with allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, isn’t ruling another bid for the same seat.

A powerful Congressman successfully pressured a media giant to pull content. We should be worried.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

While I’m sympathetic to his plight, he has no case.

Is 50 percent too high a take? Or the best deal in town?

AT&T’s acquisition of DirecTV and TimeWarner is forcing price hikes that are driving customers away at a rapid clip.

Carlos Sanchez, who portrayed Juan Valdez the unofficial ambassador of Colombian coffee for some 30 years, has died at the age of 83.

Amazon has reportedly decided to split its second headquarters between an already urbanized area of Northern Virginia and the outer boroughs of New York City.

Florida voters approved an amendment to the state’s Constitution that will restore the voting rights of as many as 1.2 million ex-felons and make it easier for future released felons to get their civil rights back.

A Senate race in Mississippi could end up being the deciding factor in the battle for control of the Senate.