Outside the Beltway

The anti-DEI party is suddenly really concerned about identity

Taking a closer look at Cooper, Kelly, and Shapiro

The 2000 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee turned maverick is gone at 82.

This time: the Alaska GOP.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

Based on the early stages of the campaign for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, it appears as though the party’s progressive wing has misread the signals being sent by the party’s voters.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

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.

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.

When it comes to the Trump White House, the fish rots from the head down.

Regrets, he’s had a few.

John McCain continues to bravely battle an aggressive form of brain cancer, but he’s already made clear that he doesn’t want the 45th President of the United States at his funeral.

Trump’s decision to retain outside counsel is not surprising. Whether he will listen to Kasowitz any more than he appears to be listening to his White House advisers, of course, is an entirely different question.

For some reason, Joe Lieberman is apparently the front-runner to replace James Comey at the F.B.I.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

Polls are quite useful in the right circumstances, but knowledge, complexity, and timing all have to be taken into account in determining what they are telling us.

If the Administration gets its way, efforts to block the Iran nuclear deal may come to a quick end in the Senate.

Despite speculation, both Angus King and Joe Manchin will stay with the Democratic caucus. And that makes sense for both of them.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

James Oliphant asks, “Why Hasn’t the GOP Treated Fort Hood Like Benghazi?”

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.