Outside the Beltway

To listen to the meda, Joe Biden’s recent gaffes and malapropisms are a major story. For regular Americans, though, they don’t seem to matter.

Thanks for nothing, Republicans.

Donald Trump lies with the ease that the rest of us tie our shoes. Will that fact have an impact on voters?

While Democrats debated among themselves about health care plans that will likely never become law, Republicans were pushing forward with judicial confirmations.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

How times have changed, and not for the better.

Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.

The Trump Administration is warning Congress that we will need to raise the debt ceiling by September. Congress should take this as an opportunity to eliminate it entirely.

While significantly more Americans disapprove of his job performance than approve, recovery is still possible.

One of America’s fist celebrity CEO’s has passed away at the age of 94.

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

This time on Venezuela

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

Thirty years ago, when the veterans of D-Day were still relatively young and still largely with us, President Reagan delivered one of the finest speeches of his Presidency.

Seventy-five years ago today, American soldiers and our allies undertook an invasion that helped change the world.

John Kasich hasn’t shut the door completely, but recent comments seem to make it clear he’s not likely to take on the President for the Republican nomination.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has ruled out what would essentially be a quixotic primary challenge against President Trump.

Most of us define ourselves largely through our jobs. That’s increasingly a problem.

As Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush remind us, there was a time when Republicans weren’t xenophobic nationalists when it comes to immigration policy.

Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.

Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.

The problem is with our politics, not our institutions.

Other than confirming a lot of Trump Judges, the Senate has not been getting much work done so far this year.

Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.

The raw number of vessels is not the best metric of naval power.

There’s a lot of talk right now about “electability.” but what the heck does it mean?

The original star of ‘Happy Days’ reflects on the shift to second fiddle.

200-odd Congressional Democrats are taking an odd route to go after corruption.

Trump campaign officials are worried about the President’s chances of holding onto a state that was crucial to his win in 2020. They should be.

Larry Sabato lays out a quite plausible path.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has officially joined the race for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

Already the longest-serving former President, he’ll pass George H.W. Bush as the longest-living tomorrow.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

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

Paul Manafort walked into court yesterday facing the possibility of 20 years in prison. He came away with a much better outcome.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

Saturday Night Live mocked the President’s declaration of a ‘national emergency,” which caused him to lash out on Twitter.

Patrick Caddell, who helped Jimmy Carter win the Democratic nomination and White House in 1976, has died at the age of 68.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

The former #2 official at the FBI is trying to sell a book.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

The Speaker was dealt a winning hand and played it with the skill of a seasoned pro. But the outcome was all but inevitable.

Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?