Outside the Beltway

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

It turns out, he wasn’t all that truthful.

The market for competent centrists.

Crises tend to be distracting.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

Despite Pompeo’s assurances, we are already seeing consequences for the Suleimani killing.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

Is the Sanders-Warren position too extreme for the general election?

Eight months later, the President and his Administration continue to refuse to acknowledge the truth about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

There are children being held in what amount to internment camps on the southern border under appallingly bad conditions and the President is more concerned with falsely blaming his predecessor for the problem.

In what appears to be a first, Judge Brett Kavanaugh took to the media to defend his nomination. Not surprisingly, he chose a friendly venue.

Orwell lives.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, who used to be a Trump favorite, is out with a book that makes sensationalistic claims about the Trump Administration. The real story, though, is what she has on tape and how she got it.

Rebutting the President’s routine prevarications merely spreads them. Is there an alternative?

Based on a strict reading of the Constitution, a sitting President probably does have the power to pardon himself. That doesn’t mean he should be allowed to get away with it without consequence.

Things continue to look good for Democrats as we get closer to the midterm elections.

The senior Senator from Massachusetts denies interest in 2020 but won’t promise to serve out a new Senate term.

Jonathan Bernstein thinks so and Chuck Todd and company outline a pretty strong case.

Since taking office, President Trump has made an average of 5.5 false claims per day.

A big change appears to have taken place in American cable news viewing habits.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.