Outside the Beltway

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.