Outside the Beltway

For your consideration.

The rules are different if you’re famous.

Partial credit at best, however.

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

If you are wondering why masks are political, look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

A civil rights legend has passed.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

Even Republicans are wondering if President Trump is at his “Katrina moment.”

Are Republicans eschewing absentee voting?

The Country Music Hall of Famer is gone.

Joementum.

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

The GA14 House race.

The Economist gives Joe Biden an 83% chance to win the Electoral College.

The preliminary hearing revealed a damning case against the shooter of a young black man.

Outside agitators, including white supremacist groups, are shaping public perception of the George Floyd protests.

Likely the right outcome but I wish I political motivation weren’t the default presumption.

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

A bizarre twist to a tragic story.

We now have more context but not more relevant facts.

A seemingly innocent black man has been killed, sparking a wave of outrage.

“Will some people be affected badly? Yes.”

We’re putting people in an impossible position.

The bad news keeps on coming.

Critics of the modeling and of the data analysis are being too simplistic.

Gatherings involve risk at the moment.

It’s not greedy hoarders after all.

Leadership matters (as does sources of news).

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

The race is over but Bernie’s still running.

The former VP is focused on beating Bernie Sanders but his team is looking ahead.

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

The Iowa winner and New Hampshire runner-up has acknowledged the inevitable.

Anti-Biden ads using the former President’s words are being aimed at black voters.

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

Worrisome news for an American icon.

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

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

The House Judiciary Committee has issued its report on the impeachment of President Trump.

The House Judiciary Committee moved one step closer to impeachment.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

It’s time to start speculating about a brokered convention again,even though it probably isn’t going to happen.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.