Outside the Beltway

If the politics of cruelty has peaked, what follows?

A former dissertation advisor and two Army War College professors are speaking out against the gubernatorial candidate.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

Competing priorities.

A new poll shows the former Vice-President leading Senator Elizabeth Warren in her home state.

Congressman Bradley Byrne has entered the race to challenge Doug Jones for the Senate from Alabama in 2020. This seat is likely to be a Republican pick-up regardless of who the Republicans nominate.

At this early stage of the Democratic race, it doesn’t appear that voters care very much about the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry.

Elizabeth Warren still hasn’t figured out how to put the ‘Native American’ issue behind her.

Rather than cauterizing an open wound, she’s fanned the fuels of a fire.

Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA report showing that she does indeed have some Native American heritage in her family’s past. That won’t stop conservatives from continuing to attack her, though.

There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.

House and Senate Republicans say they have reached agreement on a final tax bill, and Democrats are engaging in an effort to delay a vote in the Senate until Doug Jones can be seated.

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

Even a ceremony honoring American heroes wasn’t immune from President Trump’s habit of attacking racial minorities.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

To listen to many of the Republican candidates for President, it would appear that the lights have been turned out on Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

And the fun part is that his main motive for running appears to be the opportunity to troll Rand Paul.

Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.

That word may not mean what you think it means.

Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.

To a large degree, the Democratic Party’s supposed advantage among women voters appears to not exist this year.