Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler. But that’s not the standard.

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

The President-elect lost the popular vote. Legally, that is the way that is it. This is a disgrace for “the Greatest Democracy in the World.”

No, the Clinton dynasty isn’t dead just yet.

Despite resentments, power will transition peacefully from President Obama to President Trump. We should be thankful for that rather than protesting it.

Did Richard Nixon have knowledge of the future?

Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

Janet Reno, who served as Attorney General for nearly all of the Bill Clinton Administration, has died at 78.

Another month of resilient, but not noteworthy, jobs growth.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

Clinton is getting no special treatment by the standards of her high-powered peers.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

Has any major party nominee for president ever damaged his reputation in this manner?

Donald Trump is losing something much more important to him that an election.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

Candidate trumps party in a presidential system.

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

The Republican nominee is threatening our fragile democracy.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

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

North Korea conducts yet another nuclear weapons test, and it’s unclear what anyone can do to stop them.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

An amplification on the question of likability.

After some two weeks in which it seemed like he might be moderating, Donald Trump doubled down on the most anti-immigrant portions of his immigration plan.

This is not exactly what Rick Perry had hoped he’d be doing this fall.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

Early indications are the Ruth Bader Ginsburg and other older Justices don’t plan on leaving any time soon.

Another day, another round of irresponsible demagoguery from Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

It just keeps getting worse.

Did Donald Trump really suggest assassination as a political weapon, even as a joke? It sure sounds like it.

If you think that once elected Trump will be corralled by cooler heads and experts, I would submit to you that this week underscores this will not be the case.

The nature of US parties means that Trump more or less is the GOP at the moment, and hence the GOP will do nothing about Trump.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

The second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.

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

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.