Outside the Beltway

Hillary Clinton is taking a hit in the polls, but it’s unclear if that’s going to matter when 2016 rolls around.

Rand Paul Is at a distinct disadvantage compared to his fellow Republican candidates for President.

The agency that runs Washington D.C.’s mass transit has banned all political ads after Pamela Gellar attempted to run an advertisement featuring a drawing of Mohammed.

Hillary Clinton remains as much the inevitable Democratic nominee as she always has been.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers.

The New York Times really, really wants a horse race for the Democratic nomination.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

The race for the Republican nomination is as tight as ever, and so far nobody seems to be emerging as a clear front-runner.

Several of the top representatives of soccer’s governing body have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in New York.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.

The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

Los Angeles became the latest major city to increase its minimum wage. It’s a risky bet that is likely to do more harm than good.

The Clinton Foundation has disclosed that there were $26 million in donations that it had failed to disclose while Hillary was Secretary of State.

Robert Gates, the former Defense Secretary who now serves as head of the Boy Scouts Of America, has called for an end to that organizations ban on gay Scout Leaders.

What if they held a straw poll and nobody came?

Thwarted by the legislature, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal used his executive power to take action that seems directed more toward evangelicals in Iowa than anything happening in his home state.

With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.

Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.

A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,

There’s a better way to finance news than hiding it behind paywalls.

Pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying to figure out why the polls released right up until the eve of the British General Election were so wrong. Here’s one theory, and it’s very compelling.

The final episode airs tonight. How will Matt Weiner will wrap it up?

The gang at The Week are surprised that “Only jurors who were open to the death penalty were chosen for the Tsarnaev trial.”

Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.

Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.

George Stephanopoulos’ s ties to the Clinton’s have always raised questions about his objectivity. Now, there’s further reason to doubt that he can play fair when the Clinton’s are part of the story he’s covering.

The first of what is likely to be many defamation suits related to Rolling Stone’s discredited campus rape story has been filed.

Seymour Hersh is out with a conspiracy theory about the death of Osama bin Laden that just doesn’t make sense.

Hillary Clinton hasn’t taken questions from reporters in three weeks. Because she doesn’t need the media as much as most other candidates.

Like most Republicans, Jeb Bush either fails or refuses to recognize what an utter, unjustifiable disaster his brother’s decision to invade Iraq actually was.

The tributes to the troops you see during N.F.L. games were most likely bought and paid for with your tax dollars.

The jobs market bounced back in April, but that’s about all we can say.

A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that the N.S.A.’s data mining program is illegal, but its ruling may not have a very big impact.

The political outlook in the United Kingdom is as uncertain as it has ever been.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

Mike Huckabee’s back, but the 2008 magic is gone.

It’s complicated. And probably not a scandal.

Two men were killed last night before they could carry out what appears to be a planned attack on an anti-Islam event in Texas.

Two of Chris Christie’s closest aides were indicted in connection with the Birdgegate scandal today, a third plead guilty, and Christie’s Presidential ambitions are pretty much dead.

Big news out of Baltimore and, perhaps, the beginning of justice for Freddie Gray.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are talking about fundamentally changing what it means to be an American, and it’s a bad idea.

The Clinton Foundation’s foreign donations continue to be a problem for the Clinton campaign, and the story isn’t likely to go away any time soon.

U.S forces in Afghanistan have been involved in missions that go far beyond the counterterror mission the Obama Administration said they would be limited to.

There is no excuse for last night’s rioting in Baltimore, but that should not deflect attention from the problems with that city’s police.