Outside the Beltway

We’re set to return to the era of trillion dollar budget deficits, and Republicans won’t do a thing about it.

Tim Pawlenty is attempting a comeback in Minnesota. It won’t be easy.

Mitt Romney staked out a position on DACA that is to the right of the President, and to the right of a majority of Utah voters.

Republicans on Capitol Hill worried about all the leaking coming from the Trump White House would be wise to actually do the oversight the Constitution compels them to do.

Profiles in courage? With Republicans in the Trump Era, it’s more like profiles in cowardice.

A gadfly candidate who has denied the truth of the Holocaust won a GOP primary in Illinois because nobody ran against him.

A famous name enters the race to challenge Andrew Cuomo, but it’s unlikely she’ll have much of an impact.

Things are looking good for Democrats in 2018, but there’s some speculation that Nancy Pelosi’s position at the head of the party in the House could be in danger.

The Trump presidency is the latest step in treating commentators like policy experts. It is all a manifestation of how the modern GOP is a populist party.

Republicans are claiming that Conor Lamb won Tuesday’s Special Election in Pennsylvania because he campaigned as a conservative. These people are either deluded or lying.

The nominations of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel could be in trouble in the Senate.

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration is backing away from gun regulations opposed by the N.R.A.

It is a fair question. But judging the Trump administration on tax cuts, Gorsuch, and the DJIA is to ignore a lot of profound problems.

A big win for gun control advocates in a deeply Republican state.

The 80-year-old Mississippi Republican, who was first elected to the Senate in 1978 after serving six years in the House, has been in poor health.

Once again, the Administration is walking back the President’s statements on a controversial issue.

Michael Gerson and Amy Holmes will host a program loosely based on “Firing Line” starting in April.

What is CPAC telling us about the contemporary conservative movement?

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.

A new poll suggests that Republicans would get the blame if Congress fails to pass a bill to protect DACA beneficiaries.

A significant and important development in the Russia investigation that shows that President Trump’s claim that the stories of Russian interference in the 2016 election were “Fake News” is completely untrue.

To the surprise of nobody, Mitt Romney entered the race to succeed Orrin Hatch in the Senate. He’ll probably win.

Women voters are turning decidedly against Donald Trump, this could pose problems for Republican in 2018 and beyond.

The Tea Party is dead, but it was never really alive to begin with.

Republicans spent the eight years of Obama Administration railing against fiscal irresponsibility. Now that they have power, they’re the ones being fiscally irresponsible.

One of the main objections that many on the right seem to have to proposals to legalize DACA beneficiaries and other illegal immigrants is the idea that they could eventually become citizens. There’s no good reason they shouldn’t be able to do so.

Congress seems likely to pass a budget deal today that will massively increase spending, putting to rest once and for all the rank hypocrisy of Republicans when it comes to claims that they are “fiscally conservative.”

With Republicans fully in control in Washington, their concerns about the budget deficit seem to have disappeared.

Will Joe Arpaio cause the GOP to lose an otherwise winnable Senate race?

After spending much of 2017 trying to do it, Republicans are giving up on any effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act before the midterms.

The guy who found Al Capone’s vault wishes we had a guy like Sean Hannity back in the Watergate era.

Imagine a world where Hillary Clinton was President and stood accused of the same things Donald Trump and his campaign are currently under investigation for.

Democratic norms are eroding.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

Americans were once largely united in their opinions about Israel and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. That’s not the case anymore.

The deal that led to the end of the Federal Government shutdown isn’t sitting well with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.

The government is shut down and Washington is playing the usual blame game. In reality, there’s plenty of blame to go around, and one of the guilty parties is the American people.

That “Romney for Senate” campaign seems pretty much inevitable.

A Federal Court in North Carolina has issued a stinging ruling against the partisan gerrymandering undertaken by the Republican legislature in that state.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

2017 was quite a year. 2018 promises to be just as interesting.

Federal Appeals Court Judge Alex Kozinski is resigning immediately after a barrage of sexual harassment allegations.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

There are no good outcomes for the GOP in Alabama.

A top Republican political analyst is warning that a Roy Moore victory in Alabama could pose real problems for Republicans in 2018. If it does, they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves.

Donald Trump’s Jerusalem decision reveals yet again that he is an appallingly bad deal maker.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.