Outside the Beltway

Returning to a debate from the comment section.

A long exposé misses the mark.

It is too soon to tell.

Of leopards and faces.

Cabinet appointments edition.

Thoughts that didn’t fit in my last post

The rare case where a clickbait headline is actually appropriate.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

Mayor Pete is being mocked for telling obvious truths.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

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

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving office at the end of the month.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

The president has a skewed view of who is trying to enter the US.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia last night, and the incident raises questions of how far we should let politics infiltrate everyday life.

Donald Trump has had harsher things to say about Rosie O’Donnell than he did about the people responsible for yesterday’s violence. That says something about him.

Ignorance of history and process is a hallmark 17th Amendment repeal arguments.

President Obama is being criticized for remaining on vacation while Louisiana deals with historic flooding.

It’s not going to happen.

Nearly one year after the Supreme Court’s historic decision, public support for same-sex marriage continues to rise even among groups that were previously strongly opposed to it.