Outside the Beltway

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

The Trump Administration is out with a tax plan, but it’s seriously lacking in details.

The 44th President will make as for a one-hour speech as his old annual salary. Should we worry about that?

Polling indicates that voters find the Democratic Party to be even more out of step than the Republican Party.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump continues to suffer from bad poll numbers.

Faced with the fact that it has little to show for its first 100 days in office, the Trump Administration is pressuring Congress to come up with a new health care reform bill before the end of next week.

Speaker Ryan’s statement about the GOP being “a 10-year opposition party” is problematic.

Senate Democrats are divided on how to approach the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, making it likely that he’ll be confirmed.

The Congressional Budget Office delivered some bad news yesterday to House Republicans on their replacement for Obamacare.

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

Members of Congress and the Senate are once again facing down angry constituents, but it’s unclear whether it will translate into anything substantial in 2018.

At Congressional town halls across the country, there are signs of what could turn into a movement that would cause real headaches for the GOP in future elections.

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

Senate Democrats are set to almost unanimously oppose virtually all of the Trump Cabinet nominees yet to be voted on.

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

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.

To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

Political change coming to Germany? Or more of the same.

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.

In what seems like a replay of the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, some top Democratic Party leadership positions may be in jeopardy.

Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

Two of Chris Christie’s closest aides were convicted in the criminal trial resulting from the ‘Bridgegate’ scandal.

Has any major party nominee for president ever damaged his reputation in this manner?

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

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.

David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.

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

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

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

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

The second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

Democrats will consider changing superdelegate rules, but not as much as Bernie Sanders would like.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

The 2016 Republican Convention is barely halfway over, but some Republicans are already looking ahead to 2020.

Well that took long enough.

Backers of the losing candidate for the Democratic nomination are surprised that they’re not getting their way.