Outside the Beltway

Young people acting selfishly is a fact of life.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Too many people still don’t understand the idea behind ‘flattening the curve.’ That includes our President.

People who should know better are making ridiculous claims.

As if the country needed more turmoil.

Trading has resumed after an early plunge triggered automatic suspension.

Fears have reduced demand for public transit.

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

There’s nothing to see here, folks.

The inevitable has happened.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

He’s campaigning in her home state and Amy Klobuchar’s, too. And may win both.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

CBS did a lousy job.

Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

Could the fevered dream really come true?

We now have five candidates in double-digits.

The caucus tallies are so riddled with errors that the DNC is calling for a recount.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

It’s literally the equivalent of buying a large pizza for the average American household.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

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

After months of delays, Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton is now saying he’d be willing to testify if he were subpoeanaed.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

The assassination of a top Iranian official on a visit to Baghdad is having the expected negative impact on our relationship with Iraq and the fight against ISIS.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Policies towards Iran and NK are both a mess.

A big fundraising quarter for the Senator from Vermont.

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

In just three years in office, Donald Trump has succeeded in taking huge steps in transforming the judiciary for decades to come.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

Mike Bloomberg’s campaign was forced to apologize for something that really isn’t a scandal.

The truth is that many voters are paying attention to issues that have nothing to do with impeachment or simply ignoring politics altogether.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison gets a lesson in governing the hard way.

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

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

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.

Late last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a trio of cases healing with subpoenas for the President’s financial records.