Outside the Beltway

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.

Allegations of influence peddling by Clinton Foundation donors are being rehashed thanks to the release of a new batch of emails.

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

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

A new poll suggests that the decision not to bring charges related to her use of a private email server will likely have only a minimal impact on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

A horrific night in Dallas.

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

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

In a sign that the ongoing F.B.I. investigation into her use of a private email server and handling of classified information is coming to an end, the former Secretary of State was interviewed by Federal Agents today.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch will essentially recuse herself from making a decision about indictments in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.

Donald Trump responded to the attack on the Pulse nightclub by renewing his call to ban members of an entire religion from coming to the United States.

“Common sense” measures and the worst shooting spree in American history.

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

With two former Republican governors running under its banner, is there such a thing as a “Libertarian Party”?

A commenter asks what the consequences ought be for Clinton’s transgressions.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

A bad day for the Clinton campaign.

No trial for Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Robert Dear, at least not for now.

Even as Hillary Clinton heads toward winning the Democratic nomination for President, there’s an server-sized shadow over her campaign.

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.

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.

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79.

With the Vermont Senator holding a seemingly insurmountable lead in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders and HIllary Clinton clashed last night in their most contentious debate yet.

More email headaches for the Clinton campaign, but it remains unclear if any wrongdoing occurred.

New email headaches for Hillary Clinton, but it’s not clear what impact they will have on the race for President, if they have any impact at all.

Good news for Jason Rezaian and four other Americans, and another example of how diplomacy can help resolve disputes that seemed irresolvable.

The gun control regulations to be announced later today by President Obama later today amount to far less than the hype would lead you to believe.

Every public school in Los Angeles, which covers over 600,000 students, plus teachers and staff, has been closed for the day in the wake of unspecified threats.

The man who killed three and wounded several others at a Colorado Planned Parenthood seemingly admitted guilt and motive in a courtroom outburst, but questions about his mental capacity remain.

The Director of the F.B.i. told Congress today that the San Bernardino shooters were apparently radicalized much earlier than previously believed.

Yesterday, cable news networks, and most especially MSNBC, showed their profession at its most pathetic.

The probability that the shootings in San Bernardino were at least inspired by ISIS and/or other Jihadist terror networks is increasing.

No, there really haven’t been 355 ‘mass shootings’ since January 1st. Not unless you’re relying on completely unreliable data.

Mass shootings rightly grab our attention. But the obscure the overall picture of violent crime.

The suspects in the San Bernardino shootings are dead, but that’s about all we know so far this morning.

Multiple victims, and possibly multiple shooters, reported in San Bernardino, California.

A Chicago Police Officer has been charged with murder in the death of a 17 year old African-American male that, from the evidence that has been released, seems completely unjustifiable.

With little actual debate and despite Paul Ryan’s promise of a return to ‘regular order,’ the House has passed a hastily drafted bill in response to the largely fear-based response to Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Donald Trump’s demagoguery and disdain for individual liberty enters a new phase.

France’s President blames ISIS, vows response, as death toll from Paris terror attacks stands at at least 127.

The investigation continues, but the consensus seems to be growing that Metrojet 9268 was taken out by a bomb.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

Up to 13 people are dead and as many 20 injured after another mass shooting on a college campus.