Outside the Beltway

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders hints that he’s thinking of running for President in 2020.

Surely a celebrity hound with no political experience can’t become President. Right?

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she has no intention of running for President in 2020.

Add yet another name to the potential Democratic campaign field in 2020.

Thanks in large part to an aggressive public health education program and vaccination, Australia is on course to effectively eradicate cervical cancer.

The State of Texas is arguing in Court that a school district can force a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

This morning, President Trump took to Twitter to attack Dr. Christine Blasey Ford over her allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Monday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the charges made against Judge Brett Kavanaugh is still on as scheduled, but the details are still being negotiated.

Voter turnout in primary elections in 2018 was significantly above normal levels. especially in Democratic races.

As expected, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo easily fended off a challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon. Let the Presidential speculation begin.

One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.

President Trump says he wants to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but his own lawyers clearly don’t trust him enough to allow that to go forward.

A powerful political network is distancing itself from the Trump-dominated Republican Party.

Some Democrats want to compel President Trump’s translator to testify about his private meeting with Vladimir Putin. That’s a bad idea.

The midterm elections are still four months away, but Democrats are already making moves to prepare for the race for their party’s Presidential nomination in 2020.

The 100-mile Constitution-free zone strikes again.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s celebrity challenger doesn’t appear to be going anywhere.

The Trump Administration is declining to defend the Affordable Care Act in Court, arguing that the individual mandate is now unconstitutional because the tax penalty has been eliminated.

The plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill appears to be running up against President Trump’s bizarre affinity for Andrew Jackson.

As he has in the past, Bernie Sanders will seek the Democratic nomination for Senate in Vermont but won’t accept the nomination if he wins.

Quietly, Mike Pence is seeking to create his own power base inside the GOP even as the White House pushes back.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

Like many Presidents before him, Donald Trump wants a line-item veto. Getting there won’t be easy, nor should it be.

President Trump is not being bold on drugs. Instead, he is just recycling old, failed idea.

A famous name enters the race to challenge Andrew Cuomo, but it’s unlikely she’ll have much of an impact.

What the heck is going on in Kentucky and Tennessee?

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Whatever goodwill may have existed between the Trump Administration and Steve Bannon appears to have evaporated.

A seventh woman has come forward to accuse Senator Al Franken of having groped her as calls mount from his Democratic colleagues for him to resign.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand says Bill Clinton should have resigned over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Raising the question of just how stringently we should apply the standards of today to the events of the past.

Will Joe Biden be ‘tan, rested, and ready’ enough to take on 2020?

The shooter in the Texas church shooting was apparently able to get his weapons because the Air Force failed to report his domestic violence conviction.

John McCain has been standing out from his fellow Republicans largely by unleashing on President Trump, and it is unlikely to end anytime soon.

Trump loses his HHS Secretary amid a growing scandal involving the use of private and government jets by Cabinet officials.

Senate Republicans have ten days to act on their last-ditch attempt to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare, and it’s not at all clear if they have the votes to do so.

We’re a long way away from the start of the 2020 election cycle, but Democrats are already maneuvering for support and money.

They may both be Republicans, but the relationship between the President and the Senate Majority Leader is bad and seems to be getting worse.

After 200 days, President Trump’s job approval numbers are hitting new lows.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

President Trump’s decision to share highly classified information with the Russians is yet another demonstration of his dangerous hubris and incompetence.

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

Even the most offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

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

Just under a year ago, Senate Republicans took a big risk regarding the Supreme Court. Now, it’s paid off big time.

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

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

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