Outside the Beltway

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

Once again, the Federal Reserve chooses to pass on the opportunity to raise interest rates.

One media critic is arguing that news organizations should ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton will become the Presumptive Democratic Nominee tomorrow. This is utterly ridiculous.

By the end of the night, we’re likely to be in an entirely new phase of the race for both the Republican and Democratic nominations.

Another big night for Donald Trump puts him another step closer to being the presumptive GOP nominee.

Michael Bloomberg announced today that he’s not running for President, but he came awfully close to getting into the race.

It’s Super Tuesday, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to go a long way toward securing the nominations of their respective parties.

Donald Trump won his third contest in a row in Nevada, putting him one step closer to inevitability.

Unless the polls are very wrong, it looks to be a good night for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Beyond that, there’s a lot that’s still up in the air.

In a move it had been telegraphing for the better part of a year, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since July 2006.

Marine Le Pen suffered setbacks in the second round of regional voting on Sunday, but the party still seems likely to become more popular in the coming years.

To a large degree, the narrative you believe will govern the 2016 elections depend on which party you want to see win. But what’s the most likely outcome?

A political earthquake north of the border.

After months of hinting that interest rates would be rising this month, signs of economic weakness led the Federal Reserve to hold back.

Senate Democrats are now just one vote away from being able to block a veto override, meaning that the effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal will most certainly fail.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2015, and that suggests the rest of the year isn’t going to be very good either.

Pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying to figure out why the polls released right up until the eve of the British General Election were so wrong. Here’s one theory, and it’s very compelling.

After weeks of polls predicting a political stalemate or worse, British voters delivered a strong win for David Cameron and the Tories.

Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party, could hold the key to the future of Britain in her hands after the election ends on May 7th.

The sources of new immigrants to the United States are changing, but it’s unclear if that will have any impact on the political debate over immigration reform.

Great Britain heads to the polls in less than a week, and it remains unclear just what’s going to happen.