Outside the Beltway

This time, the rumors about John Kelly leaving appear to be true.

There’s yet another rumor that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly could be on the way out.

Preliminary figures indicate that voter turnout in the 2018 midterms was higher than it has been for any midterm election in fifty-two years.

It’s all over but the vote counting.

For better or worse, here are my projections for the midterm elections.

Fear-mongering of various types on full display.

September jobs growth fell short of expectations even as the top-line unemployment rate reached a point unseen since 1969.

President Trump claims that November will see a “red wave” rather than the “blue wave” that most analysts are expecting. There’s no evidence to support his hypothesis.

Florida voters in the Republican and Democratic parties have set up a Gubernatorial race that provides a stark choice on the table for Sunshine State voters in a race that will likely have national implications moving forward.

With Justice Kennedy retiring, the new center of the Roberts Court is likely to be the Chief Justice himself.

The North American delegation has won the right to lose a whole lot of money putting on a soccer tournament.

A couple weeks ago, the North Koreans made a big deal about destroying their nuclear test site. It now appears that the event the media witnessed was less than meets the eye.

The GOP’s most vulnerable incumbent is still looking very vulnerable.

Kyrsten Sinema, the likely Democratic nominee for the Senate in Arizona, is leading all three of her potential Republican challengers. This could spell trouble for the GOP.

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

Republicans are claiming that Conor Lamb won Tuesday’s Special Election in Pennsylvania because he campaigned as a conservative. These people are either deluded or lying.

Democrats appear to have regained momentum in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

The economy grew in the final quarter of 2017, but at a slower pace than earlier in the year and far slower than what the President has promised.

A group of 21 states has filed a petition to review the F.C.C.’s recent net neutrality rule changes, but it faces an uncertain future.

A top Republican political analyst is warning that a Roy Moore victory in Alabama could pose real problems for Republicans in 2018. If it does, they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves.

Americans as a whole are becoming less religious and some people are panicking about it.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his bigoted, radical, far-right positions on the issues, Roy Moore beat the sitting Senator from Alabama in a runoff election that essentially guarantees that he will win the General Election later this year.

Another escalation on the Korean peninsula.

President Trump’s reaction to the failure of health care reform efforts in the Senate demonstrates yet again that he doesn’t know how to be President.

The Trump Administration’s Muslim Travel Ban suffers another defeat at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

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

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

Technology continues to make more and more jobs unnecessary and irrelevant. And the consequences are going to be widespread.

The players are almost completely set for France’s 2017 Presidential elections, and the choice seems likely to come down to center-right candidate Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen, France’s Donald Trump.

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

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

A surprising name is emerging as the likely pick for the nation’s top diplomatic position.

Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.

My predictions for the House and Senate.

And the winner is……

Remember Peak Oil? Whatever happened to that idea?

While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.

The Greatest Of All Time.

A report card for the 2009 Stimulus Bill.

In case anyone noticed: I got the Trump nomination wrong.

The rise of Trump and Sanders has resurrected a debate as old as Western civilization.

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

As the Empire State votes, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton look well positioned to have a very good night.

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

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.