Outside the Beltway

61 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of a man who left office a failed president.

President Trump’s on-again, off-again visit to Great Britain appears to be on again.

Hoping that Donald Trump might not run for reelection? Don’t get your hopes up.

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

The first real poll of the Senate race in Texas shows Ted Cruz with a much thinner lead than might be expected in a state like Texas. That doesn’t mean we should expect a Democratic upset there, though.

Donald Trump may be getting ready to act as his own Chief of Staff. That would be a huge mistake.

Do yourself a favor and skip the State Of The Union Address tonight. You won’t be missing anything important.

Donald Trump is wildly unpopular in the United Kingdom, and that’s apparently causing him to eschew visiting the United States’s most important ally.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

Donald Trump is continuing to up the ante in his rhetorical war against one of America’s most fundamental freedoms.

The fundamental premise at the heart of the immigration bill that President Trump backed earlier this month has no merit whatsoever.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

In addition to the race in New Jersey, the statewide races in Virginia are also being looked to as a barometer of American politics in the first year of the Trump Administration.

Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter. Now he’s going to Congress, but the outcome of the election really shouldn’t be a surprise.

There’s a Special Election in Montana tomorrow, and the Democratic candidate is performing far above expectations.

Donald Trump is turning out to be a man uniquely obsessed with appearances, and it’s impacting his entire Administration.

Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

Another poll confirms that Virginia is firmly in the pocket of Hillary Clinton.

Congratulations Cleveland! Next month, you get Donald Trump.

The Trump campaign is out with its own ‘short list’ of potential running mates.

A purported ‘short list’ of potential running mates for Hillary Clinton is out. Here’s how the candidates stack up.

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.

A journalistic legend has passed away just days after his retirement was officially announced.

Justice Sotomayor argued last week that we ought to look somewhere other than just the Courts of Appeal, the Ivy League, and the Northeast for Supreme Court Justices. She’s right.

Another Republican Senator has broken ranks and called for hearings on the nomination of Merrick Garland, as another poll shows most Americans support hearings as well.

If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, the GOP may have more to worry about than losing the White House and the Senate.

It didn’t take long for the political battle over the seat held by the late Justice Antonin Scalia to become another part of the 2016 political battle.

Hillary’s leading potential Republican candidates, but so is Bernie! Rand Paul does better against Hillary than other Republicans! Those are the headlines you get from head-to-head match-up polls, but it’s all largely meaningless.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus suggested that Iowa and New Hampshire shouldn’t get used to their place at the top of the primary calendar. He’s right, but fixing the crazy system that put them there isn’t going to be easy.

The fallout from Donald Trump’s debate performance, and his comments afterward, continues, and it’s leading some to wonder if we may finally be at the end of this ridiculous charade.

A good first step, but there’s a lot more than needs to be done to reform the criminal justice system.

So much for freedom of speech.

Hillary Clinton continues to look more inevitable by the day, but Joe Biden doesn’t want to go away just yet.

Advantage: Hillary.

Mitt Romney certainly seems to be running for president again. And he’s now on at least his third reinvention.

The first popularly elected African-American Senator, and the first African-American Senator to serve since the end of Reconstruction ended, has passed away.

Scott Walker argues that Governors tend to make the best Presidents. He’s largely correct, but he’s not the only Republican who fits that bill.

Trying to explain one of the biggest surprises of Election Night 2014.

Chief Justice Roberts lamented recently that an increasingly partisan confirmation process could mean that Justices who have contributed much to the Court would not be confirmed today. He’s right.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

The trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife opened yesterday, and it sounded more like a soap opera than a legal proceeding.

Rather than being a bad thing, negative campaigning is an essential part of our political system.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

The sad truth is that the bipartisanship that led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 no longer exists today.