Outside the Beltway

Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.

The fight for marijuana legalization advances in California.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

What to watch for tonight.

And the winner is……

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

Two of Chris Christie’s closest aides were convicted in the criminal trial resulting from the ‘Bridgegate’ scandal.

Journalistic malpractice has real consequences.

Another month of resilient, but not noteworthy, jobs growth.

A drought that began when Theodore Roosevelt was President has finally come to an end.

Depending on what state you live in, taking a picture of your ballot and yourself on Election Day may or may not be legal.

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

Seven days from now, millions of Americans will be headed to the polls. So far at least, Hillary Clinton is still the front runner.

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

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

The last time the Cubs were in the World Series, World War II had just ended. Now, they have a chance to break one of the longest droughts in sports history.

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

What was supposed to be a night away from the campaign trail quickly turned partisan.

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.

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

As we head into the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton looks to be in very good shape.

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.

The September Jobs Report continues to show an economy that is growing to some degree, but hardly growing as fast as it should be.

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

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

A golf legend passes away.

With just forty-nine days left in the campaign, and less than a week before the first debate, the race for President is tighter than ever.

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

An explosion that ended up injuring 29 people interrupted an otherwise quiet Saturday evening in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

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.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

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

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.

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.

Roger Ailes’s sexual harassment has led to Fox News paying out some big dollars.