Outside the Beltway

Republicans managed to pull off a narrow win in North Carolina yesterday, but they shouldn’t be celebrating.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

The Air Force’s use of Trump hotels predates his presidency—but is still highly problematic.

There’s the truth, and then there’s Donald Trump’s version of the truth. The two are seldom related.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

This morning it was a question, this afternoon is a done deal in three states.

For Donald Trump, the Presidency has been nothing but a get richer quick scam.

One of the giants of the progressive blogosphere is going away.

The August Jobs Report came in below expectations as other economic statistics point to a slowing economy.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is ending a Presidential bid nobody knew existed.

House Democrats are set to investigate the payoffs made to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

President Trump’s newest tariffs went into effect over the weekend. They’re going to hurt.

As the race for the Democratic nomination heads into the fall, it looks as if it has already winnowed itself down to a top three.

So weird.

The Democratic National Committee is moving to block efforts by the state parties in Iowa and Nevada to open up the caucus process to more participants, citing security issues.

A former Federal Reserve officials argues that the Fed should not lower interest rates to compensate for the impact of the President’s trade war, potentially leading to his defeat in the election. This is an incredibly bad idea.

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

Two new polls released today indicate that earlier suggestions that the race for the Democratic nomination had shifted were incorrect.

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

A new poll shows that most Americans want President Trump out of office, but don’t want to see the House impeach him.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.

Thanks for nothing, Republicans.

President Trump continues to have an odd obsession with nuclear weapons.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

Elizabeth Warren is rising tn the polls of the Democratic primary race, but one analyst argues she may be the perfect candidate….to help re-elect Donald Trump.

Donald Trump isn’t just admiring dictators now, he’s acting like one.

And what a week it has been.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has signed on with Fox News Channel to continue her career of lying on behalf of the President.

A disturbing story that’s almost certainly not what it first appears.

Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton is ending a Presidential bid that few people were paying attention to.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Republicans from around the country want Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for Senate in Kansas. Because they’re afraid they can’t win without him.

Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are getting more and more bizarre.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who dropped out of the race for President just last week, is running for Senate in his home state.

President Trump doubled down on his tirade against Jewish American Democrats from yesterday with some even more offensive comments.

Sean Spicer will appear on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars

Former Vice-President Biden has dropped his first television ad in Iowa, and it touches on his strongest selling point.

A new poll shows solid support for free trade and opposition to the President’s tariffs, suggesting strongly that Trump is losing the public relations battle on this issue.

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

On the Sunday shows today, one of the President’s top aides insisted that the Administration is seriously looking at the idea of buying Greenland even though it isn’t for sale.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Workers at a petrochemical plant were told they could choose between showing up for a Presidential speech and not getting paid.

Confirming the original diagnosis, Jeffrey Epstein’s death last weekend has been ruled a suicide.

President Trump wants to make a deal.