Outside the Beltway

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.

Some early musings on a political fantasy that’s less implausible than it was 12 hours ago.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

Donald Trump is doing worse with white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.

A late night attack at a shopping mall, and a suspect still at large have raised tensions in Seattle.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

An explosion that ended up injuring 29 people interrupted an otherwise quiet Saturday evening in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

One speech isn’t going to make up for what we’ve seen so far.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

Thirty five years after trying to kill President Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is close to being a free man.

While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

The creator of some of the most popular television programming of the 1970s has passed away at the age of 81.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

Predictably, the latest effort to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination has ended in failure.

A night of terror mars Bastille Day celebrations in France.

A quick succession of events this morning means that Theresa May will become Britain’s Prime Minister far sooner than anticipated.

Regardless of the outcome of the Conservative Party’s leadership race, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will be a woman.

Two cases quite a distance from each other, but in both police seem to be acting with a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ attitude, especially when it comes to African-American men.

As President Obama starts campaigning for Hillary Clinton, a perennial question arises.

A massive attack hits Istanbul’s airport.

Voters in the United Kingdom are headed to the polls in a vote that will have widespread consequences.

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to realize that the political world has already moved past the race for the Democratic nomination.

A freshman Member of Parliament was murdered today, and there may have been a political motive.