Outside the Beltway

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

He’s tanned, rested, and ready. But it ain’t happening.

Not surprisingly, we remain as polarized as ever.

Cyber security experts are quite alarmed.

The DPRK is promising a “gift” to the United States. The only question seems to be what form it will take.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

An interesting albeit dubious selection for Person of the Year.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

A sequel to E.T. The Extraterrestrial of sorts, premiered yesterday.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

Taking a look at the state of the race as Democratic prepare to clash in tonight’s fifth debate.

As the impeachment proceedings move forward, Democrats are shifting their focus to a specific, and powerful, charge.

Thirty years ago today, history took off in a brand new direction.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed President Trump a loss in his effort to prevent prosecutors in New York from getting copies of his tax returns.

Two weeks after the most recent debate, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are pulling ahead in the polls.

Brexit seems like it’s inevitable at this point, and that could set in motion a series of events that would mean the end of the United Kingdom.

Donald Trump is moving his permanent residence south, where he should be right at home.

It wasn’t exactly a warm reception for President Trump at last night’s World Series Game Five.

The stage for the sixth Democratic debate in December is likely to be much smaller.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is basically a non-entity in the race for the Democratic nomination, will not be running for re-election.

We won’t have whats-his-name to kick around anymore.

The fourth Democratic debate saw a viewership dip from September, but there are likely some good reasons for that.

The National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China hits American shores.

Don’t worry folks, we’ll make it past that mark quite easily over the course of the new Fiscal Year.

The United States is withdrawing its small force from Northern Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish invasion that will likely
aim to wipeout the Kurdish forces in the region.

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

Not surprisingly, President Trump told Russian officials early on that he didn’t care if Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

Oops.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

For the most part, the third debate appears to have had little immediate impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

Julian Castro, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren are pandering to the base.

After falling for the second debate, ratings were back near record levels for the third debate.

President Trump took to Twitter late this morning to fire his third National Security Adviser.

From the State of Alabama we get a perfect example of the reason why, at times, the law is an ass.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Former Vice-President Biden has dropped his first television ad in Iowa, and it touches on his strongest selling point.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

A new poll shows solid support for free trade and opposition to the President’s tariffs, suggesting strongly that Trump is losing the public relations battle on this issue.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested earlier this summer on sex trafficking and abuse charges, has died of what appears to be a suicide in his jail cell.

As was the case in June, the second night of the second Democratic debate was seen by more people than the first night.

It looks like fewer people are tuning in for the second Democratic debate.

President Trump’s nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence is quite simply not qualified for the position he has been nominated to.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

Wednesday’s Congressional testimony by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller wasn’t exactly a ratings blockbuster.

Increased focus on conservative efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade appears to be rallying public support for abortion rights.