Outside the Beltway

Both major parties have claimed victory but it certainly looks like Likud will hang on.

Sanders’ suggestion is not as outside democratic norms as one might think.

The Israeli prime minister is engaging in a familiar but dangerous gambit to retain power.

As many states contemplate restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentence, a leading Democrat wants to go further.

The law is not on the President’s side.

Theresa May and the UK are quickly running out of options.

Senate Republicans are pushing for the end of minority obstruction—and the Democrats can’t wait.

The early frontrunner for the Democratic nomination is drawing fire from multiple fronts. It may destroy his candidacy before it begins.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

Many are calling for the UK Prime Minister’s ouster. But the problem is Brexit itself, not any one leader.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

Ultimately, it isn’t a very good one.

Some context for ongoing discussions.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

A further attempt at explanation.

The response to the latest outbreak of the Ebola Virus has both succeeded and failed in several response.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

There’s a political scandal brewing in Canada just as that nation starts looking ahead to elections later this year.

With criminal charges and an election hanging over his head, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to the political right for support and survival.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Reason’s Nick Gillespie makes an interesting case but I don’t buy it.

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being charged with three charges of corruption even as he faces an election in just over a month.

While the rest of the world looks at other events, tensions are flaring in a long-standing global hot spot.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan continues to sound like someone seriously considering running against Donald Trump.

There’s only one solution to the D.C. statehood issue. It’s called retrocession.

A student in Florida has been charged with creating a disturbance after declining to recite the Pledge Of Allegiance in class.

Congressman Bradley Byrne has entered the race to challenge Doug Jones for the Senate from Alabama in 2020. This seat is likely to be a Republican pick-up regardless of who the Republicans nominate.

A North Carolina Congressional Election that was tainted by Absentee Ballot Fraud will be redone.

Twenty days after we learned about racist yearbook photos and everything that followed from it, there’s been no action against any of Virginia’s top political leaders. Don’t expect to see it either.

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

With just over two months to go until the March 29th deadline, British Prime Minister Theresa May is no closer to a Brexit deal.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

The Supreme Court will hear a case dealing with a challenge to the Commerce Department’s decision to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census.

Patrick Caddell, who helped Jimmy Carter win the Democratic nomination and White House in 1976, has died at the age of 68.

There is a bit of a disjuncture between the terminology and the reality (but that does not excuse Trump’s current actions).

When it comes to the shutdown and border wall showdown that started back in December, Donald Trump is the biggest loser.

The National Debt officially topped $22 trillion, marking a $2 trillion increase since President Trump took office.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

The self-appointed Acting President of Venezuela has said he doesn’t rule out the idea of American intervention in his country, but we should rule it out immediately.

Negotiations to avert another shutdown appear to have stalled over the weekend with just four days left to go before funding runs out.

After a week of scandal and chaos in Virginia politics, there’s no sign that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is going anywhere, and there’s very little that can be done to force him out of office.