Outside the Beltway

Lt. General Michael Flynn wants immunity before he agrees to testify before Congress. This could be significant, or it could mean nothing at all.

Can the GOP govern? Do they want to or know how to? (Does it matter?).

A new head for the DNC at a time when the Democratic Party finds itself reeling and eager to take on Donald Trump.

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration has revoked guidelines to public schools that required accommodation of transgender students.

President Trump reverses a decision made by President Obama just over a year ago.

A potentially controversial commutation from President Obama today.

A tepid December jobs report tops off a tepid year.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

Her numbers are steady; he’s reclaiming Republican voters.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

Last night’s debate, sadly, lived down to my expectations.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

With twenty-one days to go until Election Day, things are looking very good for Hillary Clinton.

More evidence that Trump would be a terrible president.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.

Some early musings on a political fantasy that’s less implausible than it was 12 hours ago.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

It’s possible that Mike Pence won and Donald Trump still lost. It won’t matter.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

With just forty-nine days left in the campaign, and less than a week before the first debate, the race for President is tighter than ever.

The GOP civil war continues…..

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

A high-level French Court has struck down the ban on the so-called ‘burkini’ adopted by many towns along the French Riviera.

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

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

After weeks of bleeding, the Trump campaign is undergoing a shake up, but it’s unlikely to fix what’s really wrong.

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

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

The first round of post-convention polls is now complete, and it’s not looking good for The Donald.

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

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.