Outside the Beltway

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

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

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

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

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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

Roger Ailes’s sexual harassment has led to Fox News paying out some big dollars.

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

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

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

Thirty five years after trying to kill President Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is close to being a free man.

While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.

New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady has abandoned his option to appeal the ‘Deflategate’ ruling to the Supreme Court and will serve his four game suspension beginning in September.

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

The Dallas shooting spree ended with police killing the perpetrator with a drone. I’m okay with that.

Two cases quite a distance from each other, but in both police seem to be acting with a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ attitude, especially when it comes to African-American men.

Vice-President Gingrich? Really?

Californians are set to vote on marijuana legalization in November and, this time, it looks like it will pass.

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

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

An EgyptAir jetliner with 66 on board disappeared from radar just before beginning its decent into Cairo.

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is beginning to look beyond Bernie Sanders and talk about running mates.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

There are many aspects of the way delegates to the party convention are chosen that is “undemocratic,” but it’s unclear why this is a problem.

All of next season’s Thursday Night N.F.L. games will be streamed live for free via Twitter.

Two Republicans who broke with their party to support hearings for Judge Merrick Garland have changed their minds and gotten back in line with the Senate GOP Caucus.

Donald Trump has spent nine months encouraging his supporters to beat up protesters and calling the press “scum.” Words have consequences.

The producer behind a group of music legends has passed away at the age of 90.

A Federal Judge in New York has denied an F.B.I. request to force Apple to extract data from iPhones involved in a Federal drug case.

Donald Trump is trolling the depths of the Internet’s conspiracy dungeons once again. This time to raise the largely absurd argument that Marco Rubio may not be eligible to serve as President.

Apple is resisting a Federal Court order that it assist the F.B.I. in decryption of the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

The end of Webbmentum is here, my friends.

Observations, questions, and some toastosity.

Chris Cillizza thinks “Rush Limbaugh totally gets Donald Trump.” I disagree.

Sarah Palin is back, and she’s endorsing Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for President.

David Bowie has passed away at the age of 69 after a long battle with cancer.

Jim Webb’s recent criticism of Hillary Clinton is renewing speculation about an independent bid for the White House, but he hardly seems like a viable candidate for such a run.