Outside the Beltway

The eighth Democratic debate raises the question of whether we really need this many debates.

The producer behind a group of music legends has passed away at the age of 90.

Michael Bloomberg announced today that he’s not running for President, but he came awfully close to getting into the race.

Donald Trump is motivating people! The problem for Republicans is that he’s motivating them to become citizens so they can vote against him and, potentially, other Republicans.

More accurately, some thoughts on commentary about higher ed.

Nancy Reagan was a crucial part what made Ronald Reagan the man he was, and today she passed away at the age of 94.

The effort to stop Donald Trump seems likely to set off a civil war inside the Republican Party.

It seems increasingly apparent that the only way to stop Donald Trump now is by trying to force a contested convention. It also seems clear that such a plan probably wouldn’t succeed.

February’s Jobs Report was relatively positive, but there are still shadows hovering over the economy as we head further into the year.

Mitt Romney came out with a blistering speech denouncing Donald Trump, but it’s unlikely to have much of an impact on the race.

Even as Hillary Clinton heads toward winning the Democratic nomination for President, there’s an server-sized shadow over her campaign.

The Supreme Court seems as closely divided as ever on an issue that has divided the nation for forty years, but the implications of Justice Scalia’s death were quite apparent during oral argument in the Texas Abortion Law case.

A renewed internal GOP fight to stop Donald Trump seems to be doomed to fail.

As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.

A Federal Judge in New York has denied an F.B.I. request to force Apple to extract data from iPhones involved in a Federal drug case.

It’s Super Tuesday, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to go a long way toward securing the nominations of their respective parties.

Ever since last week’s debate, the race for the Republican nomination has come to resemble a schoolyard fight among a bunch of nine year-olds.

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions became the latest prominent Republican to endorse Donald Trump, but there are a lot more Republicans who are starting to panic over what Trump could do to their party.

The Republican frontrunner doesn’t want newspapers to be able to write negative stories about him.

With one surprise endorsement, Donald Trump stole the post-debate news cycle from Marco Rubio.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz landed some punches on Donald Trump last night, but it’s doubtful that they changed the nature of the race.

A new poll shows Donald Trump with historically low support for a Republican from Latino voters. That’s a recipe for electoral disaster.

Donald Trump won his third contest in a row in Nevada, putting him one step closer to inevitability.

Ben Carson may be a non-entity in the Presidential race at this point, but that hasn’t stopped him from making controversial statements.

In 1992, Joe Biden said that no action should be taken on any potential Supreme Court nominations until after that year’s Presidential election. Sound familiar?

Donald Trump hasn’t hit the point of inevitability yet, but time is running short if Republicans are going to stop him.

For now at least, the Bush Dynasty has seen the end of its involvement in national politics.

The reclusive author of one of the greatest American novels ever written has died at the age of 89.

Two new polls show that Americans are basically split equally on the question of who should appoint the Justice that will replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

Republicans are putting much on the line in their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination from President Obama.

The politicization of Supreme Court appointments didn’t start with Republicans last night.

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79.

If last night’s debate is any indication, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is about to get much more aggressive in its critique of Bernie Sanders.

As Michael Bloomberg flirts with the idea of running for President, a poll finds very little enthusiasm for the idea.

Donald Trump is back on top, but the field below him remains as confused as ever.

Bernie Sanders scored a big win in New Hampshire, as most people expected, but the look ahead still tells us that Hillary Clinton will eventually be the Democratic nominee for President.

Marco Rubio was the man in the cross hairs in last night’s Republican debate.

January’s Jobs Report was nothing to write home about.

Get ready for an expansion of the war against ISIS into Libya, because it’s probably not far away.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

Ted Cruz won, Marco Rubio surged into a stronger than expected third place, and Donald Trump was humbled just a little bit, but he was hardly a “loser.” The race for the GOP nomination has begun for real.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but come on.

More email headaches for the Clinton campaign, but it remains unclear if any wrongdoing occurred.

With mere days until voting starts, the possibility of Donald Trump running the table in the February primaries and caucuses, or nearly doing so, is more and more likely.

Donald Trump takes his war with Fox News Channel up a notch, saying he won’t participate in Thursday’s Republican Presidential Debate.

“Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times’ sake?”

“Can’t do it, Sally.”

After grabbing a lead at the end of last year, Ted Cruz has seen Donald Trump completely reverse fortunes in Iowa with just one week to go before voting starts.