Outside the Beltway

Despite two Republican defections, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Secretary of Education.

Despite the lack of evidence, Donald Trump continues to claim that there were ‘millions’ of illegal votes cast in 2016.

President Obama thinks he would have beaten Donald Trump. And he’s probably right.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

Congressional term limits are a good idea, but they are only a partial solution at best and may not be the best solution to the problems facing our political system.

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

In the end, there was no other logical choice.

To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

An irrelevant candidate is triggering a recount in three states Trump won by substantial margins.

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

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

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

F.B.I. Director Comey tells Congress that it’s investigation into new emails revealed no information to change its conclusions about Hillary Clinton and her email server.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Depending on what state you live in, taking a picture of your ballot and yourself on Election Day may or may not be legal.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

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

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

A new poll shows Donald Trump barely winning in a state that should be solidly red.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

The Old Dominion seems like it’s going to be even more firmly Democratic in 2016.

Post-convention polling at the state level holds some bad news for the Trump campaign.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

In a somewhat surprising opinion from Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Texas’s race-based admissions program.

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

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

Some of the GOP’s top donors still aren’t sold on Donald Trump.

Several recent polls have shown the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tightening, but it likely means far less than the media hype makes it sound like.

With the field before him now clear, Donald Trump is now assured to win the Republican Presidential Nomination. After that, though, his plans don’t seem to make a lot of sense.

A first look at the Electoral College paints a very grim picture for Donald Trump and the GOP.

Bernie Sanders pulled off another win, but it puts him no closer to having a realistic chance of winning the nomination.