Outside the Beltway

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

Faced with the probability of losses today, President Trump is already getting ready to blame everyone but himself.

With less than forty-eight hours to go until voters head to the polls, the odds are pointing to a Democratic House and a Republican Senate.

Michael Bloomberg is flirting with the idea of running for President in 2020. He’s done this before, of course, but this time he seems far more serious.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

Robert Mueller’s office has referred an apparent effort to bribe women into making allegations against him to the F.B.I.

Trump’s words matter.

The vise is tightening on the Catholic Church.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

At least eight people are dead in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

Authorities have arrested a Florida man named Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old Trump supporter, in connection with the wave of bombing attempts directed at critics of the President.

More outrageous behavior by the President of the United States.

Two more potential explosive devices, addressed to New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, have been discovered by law enforcement.

Newt Gingrich has endorsed President Trump’s use of the rhetoric of Josef Stalin to attack the American news media.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

More explosive devices sent to prominent Trump critics, including Robert DeNiro and Joe Biden, have been located.

Four suspicious packages addressed to prominent political and media figures have been intercepted in the past three days.

Republicans passed a tax cut bill in December they hoped would help in the midterm elections. It has turned out to be a big dud.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

Some Democrats and political pundits are putting Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke forward as a potential 2020 candidate, but he says no.

A new poll shows a decided turn toward the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator in Florida, but it may be an outlier.

Yet more evidence against the Saudis in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

President Trump is heaping praise on a Congressman who physically assaulted a reporter.

Jamal Khashoggi’s final column includes a message that should resonate far beyond the Arab world it was addressed to.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

She’s quite likely the youngest 4-star general in the U.S. Army, if not the U.S. military.

With three weeks to go until Election Day, it’s looking like we’ll end up with a Congress divided between Democrats in the House and Republicans in the Senate.

Those rambling campaign rally speeches the President loves to give aren’t getting the kind of coverage they used to, not even from his favorite news channel.

President Trump is choosing money and moral cowardice over human life in his response to the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.

New polling shows that a majority of Americans are opposed to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, but the vast amount of Republicans support it.

At this point, corruption, dishonesty, and insanity are just baked in.

The Merrick Garland precedent is power politics, nothing more.

One last Kavanaugh Cold Open.

After roughly a week of staying silent, President Trump decided last night to openly mock Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.

Surprise developments yesterday led to a pause in the confirmation process for Brett Kavanaugh. Where it goes from here is unclear.

President Trump is once again threatening to lower the tariff hammer on one of America’s most reliable allies and biggest trading partners.

Republicans have set a Judiciary Committee vote for less than a day after hearing from Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

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.

A new Gallup poll gives the GOP its highest favorability in years.

Based on their own rhetoric, it seems clear that Republicans don’t really care what Christine Blasey Ford has to say regarding what happened to her in 1982.

Christine Blasey Ford put “two teenagers” at the party where she alleges a rape attempt occurred. Neither remembers any such party.

Several days after detailed sexual assault allegations against the Supreme Court nominee, I’m not fully sure what to believe.

Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford want the F.B.I. to investigate the charges she has made against Judge Kavanaugh before she testifies, but it’s entirely unclear what such an investigation would accomplish.

A new round of Congressional Ballot polls seems to put Democrats in a strong position for the ‘blue wave’ they’ve been hoping for all year.

Cracks are beginning to show in the previously united Republican front on the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation notwithstanding what appear to be credible allegations of sexual assault.

A look at the numbers behind the influx of women into electoral politics this year.

In the past, President Trump has threatened to shut down the government if the doesn’t get what he wants in the budget. The latest budget deal effectively dares him to do it.

President Trump claims that November will see a “red wave” rather than the “blue wave” that most analysts are expecting. There’s no evidence to support his hypothesis.

New evidence indicates that the same Russian backed bots and trolls that sought to influence the 2016 election are now attempting to exploit the social divisions raised by the N.F.L. players kneeling during the National Anthem.

With less than two months to go before the midterm elections, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.