Outside the Beltway

Rest in Peace, Princess. May the Force be with you.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

Another conflict of interest for President-Elect Trump.

In the end, there was no other logical choice.

Donald Trump says he will ‘leave his business,’ but is providing very few details and continuing to leave the impression that he will enter office with more conflicts of interest than any previous President in American history.

Rest In Peace, Mrs. Brady.

Team of Rivals?

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

A late Friday news dump by the Director of the F.B.I. has thrown a confusing curve ball into the race.

Donald Trump is losing something much more important to him that an election.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

With twenty-one days to go until Election Day, things are looking very good for Hillary Clinton.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

News outlets are suddenly finding out that Trump was a cad in 2005. Film at 11.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

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

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

Blue feelings matter.

A skilled comedian and unlikely leading man has passed away at the age of 83.

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

A report over the weekend raises questions about whether or not Donald Trump is changing positions on a central tenet of his campaign.

One speech isn’t going to make up for what we’ve seen so far.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

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

Donald Trump’s path to 270 Electoral Votes is becoming less likely by the day.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

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.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.