Outside the Beltway

Once again, Donald Trump has played his supporters for suckers.

Trump’s populism, personalism, and irresponsibility are on display.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

President Obama thinks he would have beaten Donald Trump. And he’s probably right.

While you were celebrating Christmas, Israel was blasting the Obama Administration and cozying up to the incoming Trump Administration.

Delegating the morning briefing to advisors isn’t actually that unusual.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

While it seems a strange choice at first blush, it’s a good one.

Trump backs away from yet another campaign promise.

Team of Rivals?

A surprising name is emerging as the likely pick for the nation’s top diplomatic position.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

A late Friday news dump by the Director of the F.B.I. has thrown a confusing curve ball into the race.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.

A majority of her non-government visitors coincidentally donated to her nonprofit.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Allegations of influence peddling by Clinton Foundation donors are being rehashed thanks to the release of a new batch of emails.

The Dallas shooting spree ended with police killing the perpetrator with a drone. I’m okay with that.

A new poll suggests that the decision not to bring charges related to her use of a private email server will likely have only a minimal impact on Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

President Obama signed a law vastly expanding public access to government records yesterday. In other news . . . .

As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.

A commenter asks what the consequences ought be for Clinton’s transgressions.

Yes, Colin Powell used private email too. No, it’s not the same thing. No, it’s not because he was a Republican.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

A bad day for the Clinton campaign.

Just days before a high stakes primary in New York, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed over familiar themes in their latest debate.

Should we treat terrorists as trolls?

Marco Rubio is ruling out a return to politics, at least for now.

Bernie Sanders was more aggressive in last night’s debate than he has been in the past, but it’s likely too little, too late.

Even as Hillary Clinton heads toward winning the Democratic nomination for President, there’s an server-sized shadow over her campaign.

Another step forward with regard to the American-Cuban relationship.

With the Vermont Senator holding a seemingly insurmountable lead in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders and HIllary Clinton clashed last night in their most contentious debate yet.

Get ready for an expansion of the war against ISIS into Libya, because it’s probably not far away.

More email headaches for the Clinton campaign, but it remains unclear if any wrongdoing occurred.

New email headaches for Hillary Clinton, but it’s not clear what impact they will have on the race for President, if they have any impact at all.

Another hopeful step forward, thanks to diplomacy.