Outside the Beltway

The longtime Senator and Vice Presidential and Presidential nominee is gone at 98.

They shall not submit to blackmail!

It’s happening again. This time, it was easily preventable.

Prosecutors want rioters to pay for it.

The President used his first speech to Congress as an attempt to unite the country.

Another entry in the “stunning, but not surprising” category of political observations.

We’re about to spend a whole lot more money.

The Lone Star State is celebrating its independence in a big way.

The Republican Party is not really a thing.

The legal debates are unsettled but we can all agree that Rand Paul is a moron.

Some key GOP figures are at least testing the waters.

Although prosecution and conviction are unlikely.

An exploding RV did substantial property damage but caused only minor injuries to bystanders.

The junior Senator from Kentucky is drawing a lot of attention to himself on “fraud.”

Our long national farce is over.

Too little, too late.

January 6th, when the electoral votes are counted.

A country music legend is yet another victim of COVID.

A FiveThirtyEight-inspired message from the Democrats doesn’t compute.

The Army is finally getting its World War II uniforms, one base at a time.

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

Injecting data into the conversation.

The President has hit rock bottom.

Are Republicans eschewing absentee voting?

The writing is on the wall for simple-majority voting in the Senate.

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

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

Unintended consequences of a necessary policy.

Bad journalism is not needed right now.

Gatherings involve risk at the moment.

Rand Paul still doesn’t get it.

A great songwriter is gone at 73.

The COVID-19 infected Kentucky Senator defends his recent actions.

The man is a moron.

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

After months of delays, Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton is now saying he’d be willing to testify if he were subpoeanaed.

It could take weeks to resolve the impasse between the House and Senate over the procedures to be followed in the Senate trial of President Trump.

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

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.’

After two weeks of hearings, public opinion has not moved very much on the impeachment of the President.

A Senate Impeachment trial in early January would have a serious impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.

The Democratic victory in Virginia’s legislative elections has revived hopes for advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment, Even if Virginia does become the 38th state to ratify the measure, though, the actual status of the Amendment is exceedingly unclear.

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

Governor Matt Bevin still won’t concede the Kentucky Governor’s race.

A big win for ranked-choice voting in the Big Apple as voters approve a referendum that will bring ranked-choice voting to the nation’s most populous city.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.