Outside the Beltway

Amending the Constitution with one simple trick.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

Would a woman with his credentials be taken seriously?

The semantic debate is obscuring the actual public policy issue.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

Four highly-qualified (and two less-qualified) women ran and lost in 2020.

The women, minority, and non-geriatric candidates have been all but eliminated from the race.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

The stage for the third Democratic debate, scheduled for mid-September, is set and its half the size of its predecessors.

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.

As was the case a month ago, Vice-President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were the focus of last night’s debate. Things turned out very differently, though.

The lineups for the second Democratic debate are set, and they include some interesting pairings.

Once again, twenty candidates will participate in the second debate scheduled to take place over two nights at the end of the month.

The numbers are in and there’s good news for some candidates and bad news for a lot of the others.

Democratic voters and donors appear to be narrowing their choices for a nominee down, which could mean a short future for a lot of current Democratic candidates.

Senator Elizabeth Warren raised $19 million despite eschewing the high-dollar fundraisers her opponents have utilized.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

The lineups for the first Democratic debate of the 2020 season are set but some candidates are likely to be unhappy.

The participants for the two-night opening debate of the 2020 campaign season have been announced, and the candidates who were excluded aren’t happy.

Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.

Just over a month after he entered the race, Joe Biden has a commanding lead over his fellow Democrats while Bernie Sanders has several candidates hot on his heels.