Outside the Beltway

Depending on what state you live in, taking a picture of your ballot and yourself on Election Day may or may not be legal.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

The minimum wage has been a big part of this year’s election cycle, mainly due to Bernie Sander’s campaign and his idea of a national minimum wage. There has been lots of discussion of this, but most of it is just, well, bad. There are really two things that one can point to as to why wages above the market wage can be good.

Another poll shows that Latino voters are set to reject Donald Trump in record numbers, and now they’re turning against the GOP.

Another sign of a weak economy as the Federal Reserve considers rate hikes and the Presidential campaign moves forward.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

Remember Peak Oil? Whatever happened to that idea?

There’s nothing compasssionate about protectionism.

Responding to comments on this morning’s post.

On the left and the right, there’s been a resurgence of a long-ago discredited economy theory.

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

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.

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

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

The Supreme Court won’t hear the appeal of a pharmacist who objects to providing the ‘morning after’ pill.

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

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

In a somewhat surprising opinion from Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas’s race-based admissions program.

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

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

A purported ‘short list’ of potential running mates for Hillary Clinton is out. Here’s how the candidates stack up.

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

Donald Trump responded to the attack on the Pulse nightclub by renewing his call to ban members of an entire religion from coming to the United States.

Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals deals a setback to the gun rights movement.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump has claimed that the Judge presiding over the Trump University lawsuits is biased against him, but there’s absolutely no evidence to support this argument.

With top Republicans recoiling from the realization that the GOP is stuck with Trump in 2016, the ground seems to be being prepared for a conflict that could tear the GOP apart regardless of who wins in November.

Hillary Clinton won the final Super Tuesday of the 2016 primary season, thus officially sending us into what promises to be among the most contentious General Election battles in recent memory.

Continuing the fight at this point is not just Quixotic, it’s unsporting.

An historic achievement.

One media critic is arguing that news organizations should ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton will become the Presumptive Democratic Nominee tomorrow. This is utterly ridiculous.

Closer to making history.

Bernie Sanders is continuing to let his supporters believe he has a chance to win the Democratic nomination. He is either delusional, or he is lying to his supporters.

Donald Trump’s open contempt for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should disqualify him from being considered an acceptable candidate for President.

Hillary Clinton is hoping to avoid an embarrassing loss in California to Bernie Sanders, and she just got some help from an unlikely source.

Donald Trump is now just 28 delegates away from clinching the GOP nomination. New Jersey’s primary on June 7th will put him over the top.

Deflategate isn’t over yet and, depending on what happens in the Courts, could still be unresolved at the end of the N.F.L. season that begins in September.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders split victories in Kentucky and Oregon last night, and Clinton is now less than 100 delegates away from an historic victory.

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