Outside the Beltway

The rare case where a clickbait headline is actually appropriate.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles sparks a thought.

Inane, effective, and part of a far broader ideological debate.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

Another R/D cleavage?

A new poll from Texas give us a chance to think about parties and nominations in the US.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

Although prosecution and conviction are unlikely.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

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

Donald Trump’s Ambassador to the European Union provides yet more evidence to support impeachment of the President.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

We won’t have Sean Spicer to ikick around anymore.

A key diplomat and close supporter of the President has essentially confirmed the existence of a quid pro quo between Ukrainian aid and negative information about the President’s political opponents.

Yesterday’s testimony by Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman including information particularly damaging to the President and his defenses to the charges against him in the Ukraine matter.

Confirming earlier rumors, Rick Perry announced that he’d be leaving his position as Secretary of Energy at the end of the year.

Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has hit the bottom of the barrel.

Sean Spicer will appear on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

Faced with the prospect of a large field like the one Republicans had in 2016, Democrats are trying to figure out how to handle debates. So far, the ideas being put forward are as bad as what the GOP ended up doing.

Former HUD Secretary Julián Castro is preparing a run for the White House in 2020.

Beto O’Rourke isn’t eager to get Barack Obama’s endorsement, but there’s a good reason why.

Thanks in large part to an aggressive public health education program and vaccination, Australia is on course to effectively eradicate cervical cancer.

A new poll shows Ted Cruz in a much tighter than expected race for re-election, but it’s going to take more to consider Texas a state that Democrats could pick up in the fall.

The Texas Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke is looking close, but Democrats should not hold out much hope of flipping this seat.

A new poll indicates that Texas Senator Ted Cruz isn’t as vulnerable as previously thought, and reminds us that Texas is still a very red state.

The first real poll of the Senate race in Texas shows Ted Cruz with a much thinner lead than might be expected in a state like Texas. That doesn’t mean we should expect a Democratic upset there, though.

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 now face a stark choice.

President Trump delivered a wholly inappropriate political speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree, but that should surprise nobody.

A big win for opponents of Voter ID laws.

With two votes last night, President Trump’s Cabinet is coming together.

Despite two Republican defections, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Secretary of Education.

Eliminating the department would mean parceling out most of its activities to other federal agencies, a sleight of hand maneuver that might create the appearance of smaller government but would disrupt the ordinary operations of the federal government. 

Future Supreme Court Justice?

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

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

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

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

A big setback for one of the most restrictive Voter ID Laws in the country.

Predictably, the latest effort to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination has ended in failure.

The Supreme Court has handed down a major abortion rights ruling that reaffirms the central reasoning of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and makes it less likely that Roe will ever be overturned.

Paul Ryan is declining to back Donald Trump for the time being, but other Republicans are making their own choices.

With the Republican nomination fight down to two incredibly unappealing candidates, some Republican insiders are talking about looking elsewhere for a nominee.