Outside the Beltway

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

The caucus tallies are so riddled with errors that the DNC is calling for a recount.

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

More evidence that Trump really doesn’t know what he is doing. (Or just doesn’t care).

With one speech, Kim Jong-Un has demonstrated the Trump Administration’s North Korea policy to have been an utter failure.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

In just three years in office, Donald Trump has succeeded in taking huge steps in transforming the judiciary for decades to come.

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

A sad day for those of us who grew up watching Big Bird, Kermit, and the rest of the Muppets.

Questions linger after a shooting leaves three people and the shooter dead in an incident at one of the nation’s largest Naval facilities.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

The Butterball Turkey Hotline still thrives even in the era of the Internet.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden continues to hold a strong lead in South Carolina even while slipping in other early states.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

Mike Bloomberg is apparently entering the race for the Democratic nomination.

Donald Trump is moving his permanent residence south, where he should be right at home.

Former North Caroline Senator Kay Hagan has died,

After coming under fire for a decision designed primarily to benefit himself and his family, President Trump has decided to walk back the decision to hold the next G-7 Summit at one of his properties.

In what seems to be clear violations of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses, the President is seeking to enrich himself and his family,

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

SpaceX unveiled a model of the “starship” it would send to Mars but there’s still a lot of work to do.

Donald Trump is now committing his crimes in public.

A Federal Appeals Court has reinstated an Emoluments Clause lawsuit against the President that had been dismissed nearly two years ago.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

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

Hurricanes and corrupting truth.

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

A Federal Judge in Virginia has found the terrorist watch list unconstitutional.

So weird.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the latest politician to apologize for donning blackface while she was in college.

A Florida jury has convicted a man involved in an argument over a parking space of manslaughter, rejecting his attempt to invoke the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law

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

As he has in the past, President Trump has backed away from support for any gun control measures in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

Another poll in the wake of this month’s mass shootings shows increased support for several gun control measures. That doesn’t mean Congress will act, though.

A Federal Court has ruled once again in favor of a transgender student in Virginia who was prevented from using the bathroom conforming to their gender identity.

Jeffrey Epstein’s death by suicide has led to many legitimate questions that should be investigated. It has also led to the rise of a number of baseless conspiracy theories.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested earlier this summer on sex trafficking and abuse charges, has died of what appears to be a suicide in his jail cell.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

In the wake of the back-to-back shootings in Texas and Ohio, a new poll shows increased support for some gun control measures. But we’ve been here before.

The Trump Administration has effectively declared economic warfare against the government of Nicolas Maduro. It won’t succeed, and will further victimize the already suffering Venezuelan people.

More than half of the House Democratic Caucus has endorsed impeachment, but that’s unlikely to cause Nancy Pelosi to move off her current position.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.