Outside the Beltway

Claiming it was because of the weather President Trump chose to skip a visit to a cemetery at the site of one of the bloodiest battles involving Americans in World War One.

Florida has begun the recount process in both the Senate and Governor’s races. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

President Trump’s selection to serve as Acting Attorney General does not appear to be Constitutionally authorized to serve in that position.

Somewhere, Tim Russert is smiling.

The 2018 midterms were mostly about Donald Trump. The results were idiosyncratic.

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?

Partisan officials should not be in charge of state election processes, much less their own.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

On Wednesday Trump tweeted out a crass, dishonest ad in hopes of leveraging fear and racism as a political tool.

Overwhelmingly, legal experts agree that President Trump is wrong about birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment.

Sad news from the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

A new poll shows a decided turn toward the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator in Florida, but it may be an outlier.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed against the President

Take one name out of contention as a potential replacement for Nikki Haley at the United Nations.

Math rules.

With four weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump and the Republicans are continuing to stoke the divisions laid bare by the Kavanaugh nomination.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

Beto O’Rourke isn’t eager to get Barack Obama’s endorsement, but there’s a good reason why.

President Trump’s second speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations wasn’t much better than the first, but it it did get the world laughing at us.

A new Gallup poll gives the GOP its highest favorability in years.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

While one must give the benefit of the doubt to Ted Cruz, the Senate race in Texas is getting very interesting.

Donald Trump has been in office just over 600 days, and he’s proven beyond any doubt that he doesn’t care if what he says is the truth or not.

A new round of Congressional Ballot polls seems to put Democrats in a strong position for the ‘blue wave’ they’ve been hoping for all year.

A woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of having assaulted her when he was 17 and she was 15 has come forward. What happens next is anyone’s guess.

Former President Bush has waded back into politics but don’t expect him to be campaigning for Ted Cruz.

The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been in the news a lot lately, but what would it actually take to use it to remove a President from power?

Some last minute dramatics in the Kavanaugh nomination fight, but it seems unlikely to impact the outcome of the nomination fight.

President Trump claims that November will see a “red wave” rather than the “blue wave” that most analysts are expecting. There’s no evidence to support his hypothesis.

The Federal Budget Deficit is set to end the Fiscal Year close to $1 trillion, and to continue growing after that.

After spending most of his post-Presidency on the political sidelines, former President Bush is hitting the fundraising trail for GOP candidates in Texas and Florida.

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

The nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is, effectively, assured. Democrats should be careful about how much further they push their opposition.

After four days of hearings, the fate of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court seems assured.

The second day of questioning for Judge Brett Kavanaugh was a bit rockier than the first, but nothing happened that seriously threatens his eventual confirmation.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.

Jennifer Rubin wants to build a new political party from scratch.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Passports being denied to citizens whose birth records are being questioned.

Former Vice-President Biden’s eulogy for his friend John McCain is a lesson in what has gone wrong with American politics.

As expected, Rick Scott easily won the GOP nomination for Senate in Florida, setting up one of the most highly anticipated Senate races of the year.

President Trump reportedly vetoed a plan to issue a statement lauding Senator John McCain after he died on Saturday.

Senator John McCain has died at the age of 81,

A new poll shows Ted Cruz in a much tighter than expected race for re-election, but it’s going to take more to consider Texas a state that Democrats could pick up in the fall.

In what appears to be a move based purely on vindictiveness, President Trump has revoked the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.

A group of lawsuits filed across the country are seeking to challenge the predominant method for allocation of Electoral College votes. These lawsuits appear to have little merit.