Outside the Beltway

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

Lack of control of label is lack of control, ultimately, of a party.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

Could the fevered dream really come true?

The Democratic nominee will be white.

The Vermont Senator is a better politician than most give him credit for.

The State of the Union is petulant.

(At least the removal part)

Has this precedent permanently damaged the country? Or is it just politics as usual?

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

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

The Republicans are playing a different game.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

The paper of record endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

More on presidential nonsense with a brief diversion into blogging philosophy.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Another one bites the dust.

It’s been quite a year, and quite a decade.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

Despite denials and dismissals, it is clear that being an impeached President is getting under Trump’s skin.

By the end of today, Donald Trump will most likely be the third President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

The President of the United States has sent a bizarre, rant-filled letter to the Speaker of the House. Revealing just how unbalanced he actually is.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

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

Some reports are indicating that Joe Biden’s campaign is considering making a pledge that he would only serve a single term if elected. This would be a mistake.

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the Articles of Impeachment against the President that it will vote on later this week.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

Especially Senate inaction.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

After arguing for a month about an “unfair” impeachment process, the WHite House is saying ‘no thanks’ to an invitation to participate in the next round of impeachment hearings.

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

Further evidence that the Republican Party has turned into a cult of personalty built around Donald Trump.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

Former President Obama has been largely quiet about the race for the Democratic nomination, but that may not last.

President Trump has put his son-in-law in charge of building the border wall.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

After two weeks of hearings, public opinion has not moved very much on the impeachment of the President.

The California Supreme Court has struck down a state law purporting to require a candidate for President to release their tax returns,

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent the weekend in the hospital over concerns about a possible infection.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks ready to jump ship in favor of a run for Senate,

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

A new article puts Joe Biden’s gaffes and malapropisms in a new light.

Reversing decades of policy, the Trump Administration reversed decades of policy on settlements in disputed territory.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

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

The fight over the President’s tax returns has reached the Supreme Court.

Day two of Congressional impeachment hearings will be marked by the testimony of the former American Ambassador to Ukraine.