Outside the Beltway

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

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

Predictably, the latest effort to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination has ended in failure.

Justice Ginsburg walks back her comments about the presumptive Republican nominee.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

Well that took long enough.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

As President Obama starts campaigning for Hillary Clinton, a perennial question arises.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

Truth? Donald Trump can’t handle the truth.

The Veepstakes continues.

Comments on a pro-Trump (well, sorta) column.

Is Indiana’s Governor a contender to be Donald Trump’s running mate?

Vice-President Gingrich? Really?

If anything, the Trump campaign is going to provide some interesting data for future political scientists who study campaigns.

President Obama signed a law vastly expanding public access to government records yesterday. In other news . . . .

Chris Christie remains at the top of the list of potential Trump running mates.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

One result from the new NBC News poll shows us how important it is to pay attention to how poll questions are phrased.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

Donald Trump has had a bad June, and it’s showing in the poll numbers.

George Will isn’t just refusing to vote for Donald Trump, he’s leaving the GOP entirely

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.

Bernie Sanders admitted, finally, that he likely won’t be the nominee.

Marco Rubio changes his mind, and drops the first hint that he’s already thinking about the Presidential race in 2020 or 2024.

The head of the Federal Reserve tells Congress that the economy is unlikely to enter recession this years, but isn’t exactly going to be booming either.

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

A campaign shake up at Trump Tower, but it’s unlikely to change fundamentals.

It’s still early in the cycle, but Donald Trump’s poll numbers are already historically bad.

Clarence Thomas is the latest Supreme Court Justice to be the subject of retirement rumors. You should treat these rumors skeptically.

Congratulations Cleveland! Next month, you get Donald Trump.

Bernie Sanders’ refusal to admit that his campaign is over is costing you up to $38,000 per day.

The Trump campaign is out with its own ‘short list’ of potential running mates.