Outside the Beltway

The May Jobs Report was bad all-around. The question is whether this will come to be seen as an anomaly or the beginning of a worrisome trend.

Donald Trump’s open contempt for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should disqualify him from being considered an acceptable candidate for President.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

If Colombia makes peace, the post-conflict era will be rife with challenges.

Several recent polls have shown the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tightening, but it likely means far less than the media hype makes it sound like.

A journalistic legend has passed away just days after his retirement was officially announced.

Begun, the bathroom wars have.

The walk backs begin.

With the field before him now clear, Donald Trump is now assured to win the Republican Presidential Nomination. After that, though, his plans don’t seem to make a lot of sense.

After starting off the year strong, the jobs market seems to have taken a rest in April.

Paul Ryan is declining to back Donald Trump for the time being, but other Republicans are making their own choices.

Donald Trump’s win last night made him the presumptive Republican nominee, whether Republicans will unify around him is another question.

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

Hillary Clinton scored another big win in New York last night, putting her closer to clinching the Democratic nomination, and causing Bernie Sanders’ campaign to make even less sense.

As expected, Donald Trump scored a huge victory in his home state last night and now appears to be back on track to win the GOP nomination.

The business of the media is business. Business is not good.

A new poll finds that Donald Trump is really, really disliked by voters, but it’s unclear how much that will matter going forward.

A country music legend has passed.

A treasure trove of documents from a law firm in Panama could prove problematic for a large group of international leaders.

Putting Donald Trump at the top of the ticket would likely lead to an Electoral College disaster for Republicans.

March’s Jobs Report was good, but could be better.

Despite having previously pledged to do so, none of the three candidate for the GOP nomination are willing to say they’d support the eventual nominee anymore.

It increasingly appears that the GOP is on the losing side of the argument over whether to hold hearings and a vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

One of the pioneers of the technology revolution of the past four decades has passed away.

One week after Marco Rubio left the race, Donald Trump’s hold on the lead in the GOP Presidential race seems as solid as ever.

With President Obama becoming the first American President to visit Cuba in 88 years, a new poll finds majority support for his changes in Cuba policy.

President Obama told a group of Democratic donors that the Sanders campaign is nearing its end and that they need to start uniting behind Hillary Clinton.

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.

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

The great author Pat Conroy has died, aged 70, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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