Outside the Beltway

A deep dive into typography and naming choices.

Bernie Sanders and other advocates focus on insurance companies and drug companies. But that’s not where the money is.

Cory Booker’s message of unity isn’t going over well with Democratic voters eager for a fight.

The Vermont socialist likes to invent rights that don’t exist.

There’s a lot of money already chasing the 2020 presidential election.

The President’s re-election fund-raising is off to a fast start.

It’s still early in the 2020 cycle, but Democratic candidate are finding rally attendees focused on one thing. Beating Donald Trump.

Sanders’ suggestion is not as outside democratic norms as one might think.

“We have to be careful in balancing big dreams and bold ideas with also recognizing that typically change happens in steps.”

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

Bernie also faces disclosure pressures.

The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.

Senate Republicans are pushing for the end of minority obstruction—and the Democrats can’t wait.

Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are leading the field and Pete Bittigieg is doing surprisingly well.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

The peril of not yet running for President include not yet having a campaign staff in place.

A Washington Post columnists tries to make the case.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

Some basics on the US party system.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Beto O’Rourke hasn’t officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s certainly sending all the signals you’d expect from a Presidential candidate.

The former Vice President is seen as “just right” by likely Caucus goers.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Does it depend on what the meaning of “running” is?

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

Literally no current candidate for President has a net favorable opinion rating.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

It’s far too early, but Joe Biden’s advantages in these polls of Democratic voters can’t be ignored.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar became the latest Democrat to enter the 2020 race on Sunday.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest entrant into an already crowded field for the Democratic nomination.

Elizabeth Warren still hasn’t figured out how to put the ‘Native American’ issue behind her.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

…there is only one plausible pathway to get there.

National and Virginia Democratic officials are calling on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign over racist photos in his 1984 medical school yearbook.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

While much of the attention in the race for the Democratic nomination to date has been on the left, there is a path forward for a more centrist candidate.