Outside the Beltway

The Republicans are playing a different game.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

The paper of record endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar

A real world illustration.

The Trump campaign and the Republican Party brought in more than $150 million in the last three months of 2019 alone.

More evidence that Trump really doesn’t know what he is doing. (Or just doesn’t care).

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

Mitch McConnell and the other 99 members of the Senate will be required to take an oath to “do impartial justice” in the impending impeachment trial. He’s already admitted that he won’t.

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.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

Why mount a defense when you can go make a TV show in Ukraine?

Especially Senate inaction.

Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

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.

The Republican Party is a cult with Donald Trump at the center and his ardent supporters are brainwashed cult members.

He raises a very real problem.

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

Lock her up?

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

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

After just two months, Mark Sanford is dropping his challenge to the incumbent President.

A conservative columnist explains how once-Republican states are switching sides.

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

Jeff Sessions is running to win back his old Senate seat, putting into play the possibility of a clash with President Trump.

Another bad night for Republicans in Virginia, and another warning sign for Republicans nationally.

Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular suffered a big loss in the Kentucky Governor’s race.

Virginia voters don’t like Donald Trump, or Republicans in general, very much right now, and that could translate into Democrats taking control of the state legislature for the first time in nearly 30 years.

It’s mostly a quiet Election Day around the country, but there are some races for Governor worth watching.

While the economy is likely to remain at its current levels for the next year, that probably won’t help Trump and the GOP much.

Defying the Commander-in-Chief’s order will almost certainly ruin a good man’s career.

Greg Mankiw, an economist who served as a top adviser to Mitt Romney and George W. Bush, is officially no longer a Republican

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.

It’s not clear if Congresswoman Liz Cheney wants to run for the open Senate seat in Wyoming. If she did, though, she’d be the prohibitive favorite.

Roy Moore’s second bid for the Senate isn’t going so well.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.

Thinking about support for Trump and considering how recent events may influence that support.

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

Don’t worry folks, we’ll make it past that mark quite easily over the course of the new Fiscal Year.

President Trump’s latest Syria move is coming under heavy criticism even from fellow Republicans.

Late last week, a Federal Judge in California placed on hold a state law requiring candidates to provide copies of their tax returns.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

A Senate report alleges that the National Rifle Association allowed itself to become a Russian asset,