Outside the Beltway

The live coverage of Wednesday’s assault on American democracy underplayed its seriousness.

AZ, GA, and Pa are on the table.

They’re actually going to go through with it.

That which worked for petty business disputes was never going to work on this big of a stage.

A game wherein one team has to score more points to win than does the other.

A partial response in the context of a complex topic.

Joe Biden’s running mate will be highly scrutinized. What’s fair game?

The President’s unhinged Twitter rants have drawn a rebuke from an unlikely source.

The races are more alike—and yet more different—than we seem to remember.

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

Trump takes credit for stopping his “friend” Xi from attacking Hong Kong protesters.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

A custody case out of Texas raises issues about how to react to and treat a child who identifies as a gender different from their biological sex.

With an eye on the trade war and the 2020 election, President Trump is increasing subsidies and mandates for corn-based ethanol.

The President of the United States behaves like a child.

Beto O’Rourke is once again rejecting the idea of running for Senate instead of President.

Tulsi Gabbard has filed a seemingly frivolous lawsuit against Google due to a temporary suspension of her advertising account.

Beto O’Rourke’s campaign for President is going nowhere fast and he has only a small amount of time to stop the slide.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

For 2020, Kansas Democrats are making some interesting changes to how they will have a say in he race for the Democratic nomination.

The President and his supporters are touting the last-minute deal with Mexico announced on Friday, but the details show there’s much less than meets the eye.

The United States and Mexico reached a last-minute deal to avert tariffs that would have gone into effect on Monday. Whether the deal accomplishes anything substantive remains to be seen.

A new poll of Texas voters shows President Trump doing worse than expected against potential Democratic challengers. Should Republicans be worried?

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

Stacey Abrams, best known for losing the race for Governor of Georgia in 2018, is still apparently thinking of getting in the race. Her chances seem slim at best.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is the latest entrant into the race for the Democratic nomination for President, and the field isn’t done growing.

A new poll shows President Trump struggling against four of his potential 2020 challengers. Should Republicans be worried and Democrats elated? It’s too early to tell.

Not surprisingly, Donald Trump fears former Vice-President Joe Biden the most of all the Democrats currently running against him.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

Beto O’Rourke hasn’t officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s certainly sending all the signals you’d expect from a Presidential candidate.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

Two more defections from the stable of writers at RedState provide further proof of the extent to which conservative media has become a pro-Trump echo chamber.

A WaPo data analyst gives it a shot.

After an essentially pointless 35 day shutdown, some members of the House and Senate are proposing bills that would make government shutdowns impossible.

Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Tulsi Gabbard was born in American Samoa, an American territory whose residents are generally not American citizens from birth. However, she is nonetheless a “natural born citizen.”

Despite their rhetoric, Republicans in Congress have shown through their own inaction that they don’t really support the President’s border wall.

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

With Pat Roberts retiring, Kansas Republicans are reportedly looking at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to succeed him.

The Senate overwhelmingly passed major reforms in Federal sentencing and related laws. As the name of the bill implies, it’s a first step, but a good first step.

After initially saying no, Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke is now reopening the door to the idea of running for President.

Preliminary figures indicate that voter turnout in the 2018 midterms was higher than it has been for any midterm election in fifty-two years.

Beto O’Rourke should consider running again in 2020, but not for President.

The 2018 midterms were mostly about Donald Trump. The results were idiosyncratic.