Outside the Beltway

Newt Gingrich has endorsed President Trump’s use of the rhetoric of Josef Stalin to attack the American news media.

For the second time in two years, the Supreme Court starts a new term down one Justice. That isn’t as big a problem as it might seem.

Six siblings of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar are starring in political ads against him. This is just another unfortunate example of the extent to which our political culture has been ruined by hyperpartisan polarization.

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

Former Vice-President Biden’s eulogy for his friend John McCain is a lesson in what has gone wrong with American politics.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

More than a decade ago, Donald Trump revealed one of his secrets to success. Exhaust your enemies. It explains much of what has happened since he took office.

As has often been the case, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner is arousing some degree of controversy, mostly because of the comedy or lack thereof.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.

President Trump’s tweets, other public statements, and actions are causing world leaders to doubt the reliability of the United States on the world stage.

The tragedy in Florida last week revealed once again how hyperpartisanship is destroying our politics and harming the country.

A new study shows that Baby Boomers no longer account for the largest segment of voters in the United States.

Instead of attending the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, Donald Trump spent his Saturday attacking the press and the First Amendment.

This year’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner will be missing one high-profile guest.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

David Brooks thinks American politics “Could get ugly” before the ship gets righted.

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.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have come up with yet another plan to stop Donald Trump.

Nancy Reagan was a crucial part what made Ronald Reagan the man he was, and today she passed away at the age of 94.

Donald Trump displays some appalling ignorance about an important part of America’s military, but his supporters are unlikely to care.

A Colorado Republican Congressman has introduced a resolution meant to involve our nation’s representatives in the non-existent ‘War On Christmas.’

Blaming political opponents for criminal acts they clearly didn’t commit or advocate isn’t a political argument, it’s demagoguery.

If pre-election polling is to be believed, Stephan Harper and Canada’s Conservative Party seem likely to lose power after Monday’s elections, but there are several reasons why this may not end up being the case.

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

Another poll confirms the fact that Americans of all political stripes continue to hold Congress is disdain.

The buffoonish billionaire is tapping into something real.

Public opinion on the Supreme Court has declined significantly, largely because Republicans don’t like the Supreme Court very much right now.

In an ordinary year, Ohio Governor John Kasich seems like he’d be a perfect candidate for Republicans in an era when winning the Buckeye State is essential to winning the White House. But things are far from ordinary in the GOP.

The Greek Government is basically shutting the banking system down tomorrow as negotiations over its debt problems continue.

To nobody’s surprise, Jeb Bush has entered the race for President.

This should be the end of this story, but it probably won’t be.

The largely conservative state of Nebraska seems to be on the verge of repealing its law authorizing capital punishment.

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

Even for political junkies, the thrill seems to be gone.

It’s time for another White House Correspondent’s Dinner, and it’s going to be just as atrocious as the last one. But, the dinner isn’t the real problem.

Hillary Clinton’s political and personal baggage is likely to be a bigger problem for her than whomever her Republican opponent ends up being.

Thinking about comparative American struggles against tyranny.

Every member of the Supreme Court graduated from an Ivy League Law School. That kind of homogeneity is not healthy.

There’s more to life than politics. Unfortunately, there are many Americans who don’t seem to recognize that fact.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

Rather than being a bad thing, negative campaigning is an essential part of our political system.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

Public faith in government institutions is at all all time low.

A new poll suggests that Republicans could be losing a constituency that is very key for them in the nation’s third most populous state.

Congressional elections have become “nationalized” to a far greater extent than they have ever been.

The left-right divide is worse than it has been in decades, and we’re paying the price.

It’s no wonder that our politics system is a mess when you realize that people don’t trust each other much anymore.