Outside the Beltway

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.

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

A golf legend passes away.

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.

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

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.

Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.

A mostly mediocre jobs report for August.

A skilled comedian and unlikely leading man has passed away at the age of 83.

Things aren’t pretty inside the House of Trump these days.

Allegations of influence peddling by Clinton Foundation donors are being rehashed thanks to the release of a new batch of emails.

It just keeps getting worse.

The July Jobs Report was largely a continuation of the good news from June, but the question is how long that can last.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

The creator of some of the most popular television programming of the 1970s has passed away at the age of 81.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

Justice Ginsburg walks back her comments about the presumptive Republican nominee.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

A good month for job growth in June.

A horrific night in Dallas.

NASA’s latest probe has begun a two year mission to study the Solar System’s biggest planet.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

Chris Christie remains at the top of the list of potential Trump running mates.

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

Backers of the losing candidate for the Democratic nomination are surprised that they’re not getting their way.

An N.F.L. defensive legend has passed away at the age of 82.

The final major piece of the negotiations between the FARC and the Colombian government appears to be in place.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

The murder of Jo Cox, MP is looking more and more like a politically motivated assassination, and that’s causing some in Great Britain to look inward.

Hillary Clinton easily won the final contest of the 2016 primary season, and the Clinton-Sanders reconciliation dance began.

Republican insiders are apparently still looking at ways to stop Donald Trump at a convention. It’s far too late for that, guys.

Hillary Clinton won the final Super Tuesday of the 2016 primary season, thus officially sending us into what promises to be among the most contentious General Election battles in recent memory.

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.