Outside the Beltway

Is the settlement of the government shutdown just delaying the inevitable?

Kansas Senator Pat Roberts is the second Republican to announce his retirement, but his seat should remain safely red.

Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of The House again after eight years out of power, but there’s little time for her to celebrate.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor contends that a recent change in tax law unravels the basis for the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare.

In a small, but meaningful, step, the Senate has rebuked the Administration’s policies toward the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

With the recounts over we can officially say that Rick Scott will be the next Senator from Florida.

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?

A Senate race in Mississippi could end up being the deciding factor in the battle for control of the Senate.

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

Newt Gingrich has endorsed President Trump’s use of the rhetoric of Josef Stalin to attack the American news media.

The Russians are interfering in our electoral system again, and they’re using our own hyperpartisanship to accomplish their goals.

Nearly two years into Republican control of Washington, the budget deficit is headed back up.

For a number of reasons, we may not know the outcome of the midterm elections on Election Night.

The Kavanaugh fight is just another indicator of our national divide.

Six siblings of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar are starring in political ads against him. This is just another unfortunate example of the extent to which our political culture has been ruined by hyperpartisan polarization.

Trumpism is a direct by-product of the poisonous populism of the Tea Party movement, and they’ve both taken over the Republican Party.

A new round of Congressional Ballot polls seems to put Democrats in a strong position for the ‘blue wave’ they’ve been hoping for all year.

Delaware Democratic Senator Tom Carper beat back a challenge from a ‘progressive” challenger in Thursday’s primary.

With Martha McSally pulling off a decisive win, Arizona Republicans managed to avoid the disaster that likely would have occurred had either Kelli Ward or Joe Arpaio won last night.

Just hours before Senator McCain died, one of the candidates running for Jeff Flake’s Senate seat claimed that the McCain family released a statement about the late Senator’s health to hurt her campaign.

Here’s what will happen regarding the selection of a successor to Senator McCain.

One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.

Recent reports have indicated that doubts are growing about the wisdom of keeping California Democrat Nancy Pelosi at the top of House Leadership.

Russia’s real goal in interfering in American elections may not have anything to do with favoring one candidate over another.

Tuesday’s election results were a defeat for the progressive effort to remake the Democratic Party in their image.