Outside the Beltway

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

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

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.

Tom Brady and the N.F.L. Player’s Association suffered another legal setback in their appeal of the ‘Deflategate’ suspension.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch will essentially recuse herself from making a decision about indictments in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

Californians are set to vote on marijuana legalization in November and, this time, it looks like it will pass.

An N.F.L. defensive legend has passed away at the age of 82.

Donald Trump has a steep hill to climb to reverse a quarter century trend.

It’s still early in the cycle, but Donald Trump’s poll numbers are already historically bad.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.

A new poll shows that public opinion about Donald Trump is at the lowest point its been since he entered the race. That bodes poorly for Trump, and for the the political party that has chosen to nominate him for President.

A group of states led by Texas has filed a suit in response to new guidelines from the Federal Government regarding the rights of transgender students.

Pfizer has become the latest drug maker from barring its products from being used in executions.

Donald Trump’s win last night made him the presumptive Republican nominee, whether Republicans will unify around him is another question.

Several top Republicans have already said that they would not accept a position on a ticket with Donald Trump, so who might he choose?

Justice Sotomayor argued last week that we ought to look somewhere other than just the Courts of Appeal, the Ivy League, and the Northeast for Supreme Court Justices. She’s right.

Bernie Sanders pulled off another win, but it puts him no closer to having a realistic chance of winning the nomination.

Ohio Governor John Kasich cannot win a majority of delegates at this point, but he’s still resisting calls to drop out of the race.

As expected, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both scored big wins in Arizona, while Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders both continued to win caucus states.

One week after Marco Rubio left the race, Donald Trump’s hold on the lead in the GOP Presidential race seems as solid as ever.

After stumbling in Michigan last week, Hillary Clinton picked up a string of solid victories last night that put her one step closer to winning the nomination.

The President could nominate someone to fill the vacancy created by Antonin Scalia’s death as soon a next week, but Republicans in the Senate remain firmly committed to their decision to deny the as yet unnamed nominee any consideration.

The eighth Democratic debate raises the question of whether we really need this many debates.

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions became the latest prominent Republican to endorse Donald Trump, but there are a lot more Republicans who are starting to panic over what Trump could do to their party.

Two more Republican Governors endorse Donald Trump.

The President has another plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. It’s as likely to be well-received on Capitol Hill as all of his other previous plans on this issue.

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

Sarah Palin is back, and she’s endorsing Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for President.

St. Louis will lose its second NFL team in 28 years as the Rams go home to LA.

We won’t have Lindsey Graham to kick around anymore.

A Colorado Republican Congressman has introduced a resolution meant to involve our nation’s representatives in the non-existent ‘War On Christmas.’

A Mormon Republican Senator visits an Arizona mosque.

No, there really haven’t been 355 ‘mass shootings’ since January 1st. Not unless you’re relying on completely unreliable data.

Yesterday, the British Parliament debated the expansion of that nation’s military strikes against ISIS. For more than a year, our cowardly Congress has failed to even hold one debate or vote on America’s role in that conflict.

With little actual debate and despite Paul Ryan’s promise of a return to ‘regular order,’ the House has passed a hastily drafted bill in response to the largely fear-based response to Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Syrian refugees have quickly become political footballs in the United States in the wake of the Paris attacks, and it’s become an exceedingly shameful display of pandering and fearmongering by a group of largely Republican politicians.

Why Republicans nominate moderates for president and not other offices.

Marco Rubio has won the support of a top Republican donor and bundler, giving a much needed boost to his campaign.

When may I shoot a student?

In the wake of yesterday’s shootings in Oregon, President Obama took the airwaves to offer the same empty rhetoric he has on this issue in the past, and to make the false claim that there are simple solutions to what is a very complex problem.