Outside the Beltway

We’re unlikely to know who wins the November elections right away.

Things are not looking good.

The bad news keeps on coming.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust.

Former Congressman Joe Sestak (Who?) is ending his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

More good news for Mayor Pete.

In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

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

She’s been fibbing about how she left a teaching job nearly half a century ago.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

The evidence piles up.

From manufacturing to trade, the negative impact of Trump’s tariffs is becoming quite apparent.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

She decries swanky fundraisers and big money donors while benefiting from both.

Eighteen years after the September 11th attacks, it’s becoming harder to remember what the world used to be like.

Yes, he was terrible at his job. But one can’t break that which is already broken.

Does it get much more swampy than this?

To listen to the meda, Joe Biden’s recent gaffes and malapropisms are a major story. For regular Americans, though, they don’t seem to matter.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

As many as twelve candidates for the Democratic nomination may not qualify for the next debate. They should use that as an opportunity to get out of a race they clearly aren’t going to win.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

Workers at a petrochemical plant were told they could choose between showing up for a Presidential speech and not getting paid.

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to bring jobs back to the United States, especially manufacturing jobs. It hasn’t worked out that way.

President Trump is delaying implementation of his recently announced tariffs on Chinese goods.

Another day, another mass shooting and, as is becoming all too common in this country, this one appears to have been racially motivated.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

President Trump has named his pick for Labor Secretary.

Once again, twenty candidates will participate in the second debate scheduled to take place over two nights at the end of the month.

For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

The Trump Administration is expected to begin mass deportation raids as early as this weekend.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

Bernie Sanders is finding that the 2020 campaign is very different from 2016.

In a significant setback for challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction to hear challenges to redistricting based on partisan motivations.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

Former Congressman Joe Sestak is the 24th Democrat to enter the race for President.

Congress is considering a bill that would establish a commission to examine the issue of reparations for slavery.;