Outside the Beltway

The 45th President looks to be the 47th.

They have a preference but may not vote.

Shady accounting practices from well before he entered politics are coming back to bite him in the ass.

The laws of armed conflict aren’t designed for this war.

Xi’s government is taking a drastically different approach to the slowdown.

Decades of innovation may be coming to fruition.

Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.

A study of 29 countries shows the impact of the pandemic.

The largest adjustment since the tax code was indexed in 1985.

How well has the famous thesis fared?

Very little progress has been made towards racial justice.

The boring moderate beat the neo-Nazi with 58% of the vote.

The incumbent should win easily but turnout is low and the consequences dire.

Can it overcome demographics and decoupling to sustain its current unprecedented growth?

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Science and insanity don’t mix.

Immigration policy is harder than it looks.

Losing viewers to fringe networks, the Fair and Balanced team is joining them.

Why did Emily Murphy finally do her job?

A nonpartisan official is refusing to do her duty.

We’ve removing mail sorting machines just in time for mail-in voting.

I don’t see it.

More on Covid-19 and the flu.

Thoughts on Biden’s low profile and Trump’s daily exposure.

We’re passing grim milestones on a daily basis.

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

Contrary to the promises of December 2017, the Republican tax cuts are not paying for themselves. Instead, they are helping lead us to trillion-dollar deficits.

Justin Trudeau lost his majority but will still hold on to power in Canada, the question is how long it will last.

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

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, already facing a rough re-election battle is now dealing with a blackface controversy.

As many expected, the initial returns from the Israeli elections are too close to call.

Thanks for nothing, Republicans.

Scientists have been vastly understating the degree of global warming for decades.

Canada must have a Federal Election by late October, and the polls are showing that Prime Minister Trudeau could be in political trouble.

A new report suggests that the Chinese movie-going market will surpass the American market in 2020.

For the first time in more than thirty years, NASA is preparing to unveil a program to allow civilians to travel to the International Space Station.

The IRS is outgunned.

Avengers: Endgame earned $1 billion worldwide in its first weekend, but it will take a lot more to become the biggest grossing movie of all time.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

Economic growth slowed significantly in the fourth quarter of 2018 from where it had been earlier in the year. And it’s likely to slow down even more.

The National Debt officially topped $22 trillion, marking a $2 trillion increase since President Trump took office.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

As the shutdown drags on, it’s beginning to have an impact on the economy.

The Trump Administration appears to think that the Budget Deficit and National Debt aren’t a big deal because we can just grow our way out of the problem. This is highly unlikely to happen.

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

Faced with the probability of losses today, President Trump is already getting ready to blame everyone but himself.