Outside the Beltway

Everybody knows you never go full MAGA.

Waiting for the other side to self-destruct has always been ridiculous and dangerous.

The real crime is what’s legal.

Fund-raising alone won’t save American democracy.

West Virginia University may be the canary in the coal mine.

A counterintuitive move.

The controversies over our geriatric Congress continue.

Just when you thought they couldn’t get more incompetent.

Will discusses a nascent university and in doing so produced a cliched column about higher education.

A diplomatic nightmare brewing since last week is now upon us.

More in a series of ongoing observations about the GOP primaries.

The Trump Presidency has been a long con.

Saruman’s rigid arrogance ultimately made him pathetic. Sound familiar?

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden both brought in impressive fundraising numbers for the final quarter of 2019.

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

Kamala Harris’s once-promising campaign is nearing the end whether the candidate or her supporters wish to admit it or not.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

Does it get much more swampy than this?

As many as twelve candidates for the Democratic nomination may not qualify for the next debate. They should use that as an opportunity to get out of a race they clearly aren’t going to win.

There are hints that former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper could abandon his seemingly doomed Presidential bid to run for Senate.

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

Citing the so-called “Billy Graham Rule,” a Republican candidate for Governor in Mississippi is refusing to let a female reporter accompany him on a campaign ride-along.