Outside the Beltway

Judge Gorsuch isn’t much of a fan of Donald Trump’s comments about the judiciary.

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

On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

Donald Trump is signaling a big shift in his immigration position.

The Veepstakes continues.

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

Even as the outcome becomes more certain, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton seem to be attacking each other with increasing acrimony.

With the Republican nomination fight down to two incredibly unappealing candidates, some Republican insiders are talking about looking elsewhere for a nominee.

Advisers? Donald Trump doesn’t need no stinkin’ advisers.

Donald Trump loves the fact that he’s being praised by an autocratic dictator.

Donald Trump’s plan to bar all Muslim immigration to the United States is being widely condemned by his fellow Republicans and others, but the proposal probably won’t hurt him politically in a Republican Party that is deeply bigoted against Muslims in general.

Donald Trump’s demagoguery and disdain for individual liberty enters a new phase.

One unqualified outsider with a history of saying outrageous things replaces another unqualified outsider with a history of saying outrageous things, at least according to yet another new poll.

Most of the Republican candidates for President would rather support a lawbreaker than the Rule of Law. The American people should judge them accordingly.

With just over a week to go, Republican candidates for President are fighting for the movement in the polls that could get them in to the August 6th debate.

In the end, the odds that Congress can actually stop the new deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program are pretty low.

Rand Paul is out with one of his more forceful attacks on Republican hawks to date.

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

Senate Republicans have done more harm to the goal of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons than they have done good.

Once again, reporters and pundits are arguing that Chris Christie’s “New Jersey style” won’t play well on the stump. I’m not so sure they’re right.

Mitt Romney 2016? Not as far as his wife is concerned.

MSNBC’s attempt to be the liberal Fox News isn’t working.

Sometimes, being evasive in answering a question just makes a politician look silly. This is one of those times.

Could Alison Lundergran Grimes be surging? Maybe, but we’ll need more evidence to be sure.

More bad poll numbers for the President.

The IRS’s claim that it lost some unknown number of Lois Lerner’s emails doesn’t really add up.

Hillary Clinton remains at the top of the polls, but she’s got at least one big vulnerability.

Cliven Bundy still has his defenders among the hardcore right, but many people have joined Kentucky’s junior Senator in throwing Cliven Bundy under the bus

Can Rick Perry bounce back from the epic disaster of his 2012 campaign?

Chelsea Clinton is pregnant, and once again America’s political pundits are making fools of themselves.

Was there ever a more tepid endorsement than “Joe Scarborough for President? Sure, Why Not?”

They really love their Starbucks at NBC–and not just on “Morning Joe.”

Conor Friedersdorf turns the oft-asked question on its head.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

Will the GOP learn the right lessons from the just-concluded showdown? That remains to be seen.

Surprisingly, many pundits on the left don’t seem too thrilled about the idea of a Senator Cory Booker.

It looks for all the world as if the House GOP Caucus isn’t really under the control of the leadership.

I have for months taken it as a given that she went on five Sunday morning talk shows and lied about what happened there. Did she?

Gabby Giffords writes an emotional diatribe filled with non sequiturs that does nothing to advance the debate.