Outside the Beltway

The pandemic is massively more livable given modern technology.

A startling statistic.

The disease has killed three times the September 11 attacks in the last week.

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

Exactly the opposite of what we need in a crisis.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

Gina Raimondo has apparently lost her copy of the Constituiton.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

A sign of the times.

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

The wagons have been circled.

CBS did a lousy job.

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?

We now have five candidates in double-digits.

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

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

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

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.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

René Auberjonois, a long time character actor best known for his roles on Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space NIne, has died at 79.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.

It’s time to start speculating about a brokered convention again,even though it probably isn’t going to happen.

The vultures keep circling above the head of “America’s Mayor.”

The latest poll out of New Hampshire shows four candidates at the top in a very close race.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

Mike Bloomberg isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s getting closer.

Chick-Fil-A is ending its charitable giving to organizations that oppose LGBT rights, and conservatives are predictably freaking out.

More good news for Mayor Pete.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt President Trump another setback in his effort to keep his financial records out of Congressional hands.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has entered the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a case likely to decide the fate of former President Obama’s DACA program.

One political scientist says yes. A bunch of others say wait, what?

The newest entrant is outperforming most rivals but is intensely disliked.

A new poll seems to indicate that Democratic voters aren’t exactly jumping on the Mike Bloomberg train.

Mike Bloomberg is apparently entering the race for the Democratic nomination.

A big win for ranked-choice voting in the Big Apple as voters approve a referendum that will bring ranked-choice voting to the nation’s most populous city.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has apologized for blocking constituents on Twitter as part of a legal settlement.

Donald Trump is moving his permanent residence south, where he should be right at home.

It wasn’t exactly a warm reception for President Trump at last night’s World Series Game Five.

A Federal District Court Judge gave the House of Representatives, and the nation, a big win yesterday.

What started out as a joke on the campaign trail has turned into a serious legal argument being made to a Federal Judge by an attorney for the President.

Confirming earlier rumors, Rick Perry announced that he’d be leaving his position as Secretary of Energy at the end of the year.

Michael Bloomberg is reportedly reconsidering his decision not to run for President.

President Trump loses another lawsuit against his ongoing efforts to stonewall Congress.