Outside the Beltway

Hasan Minhaj is a serial liar. Does it matter?

Newspapers across the country are dropping the popular strip over a racist rant.

It’s just not immediate.

Looking back at my predictions about the 2020 Democratic race.

The Democratic wagons continue to circle around Biden.

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

The women, minority, and non-geriatric candidates have been all but eliminated from the race.

She’s continuing to swing at the candidates beating her at the polls.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.

A law professor makes a bad argument in favor of a pet policy.

If the current polls are right, the race will be all but over in five days.

Bloomberg waffles on China while Sanders has a soft spot for Castro.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The clear winner was Donald Trump.

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

Could the fevered dream really come true?

Two early frontrunners are being written off.

We now have five candidates in double-digits.

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

Iowa and New Hampshire voters are changing the perception of the race.

Biden’s support is in decline. But it’s not clear that Buttigieg is getting an Iowa bounce.

Mike Bloomberg’s campaign was forced to apologize for something that really isn’t a scandal.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

It’s time to start speculating about a brokered convention again,even though it probably isn’t going to happen.

Under the Democratic National Committee’s current qualification rules, Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign means he wouldn’t qualify for any future debate. He doesn’t seem worried about that.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

Mike Bloomberg isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s getting closer.

More good news for Mayor Pete.

History shows us that candidates who enter the race for President late rarely do well, and rarely manage to win.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is reportedly considering a late entry into the race for the Democratic nomination.

One political scientist says yes. A bunch of others say wait, what?

The newest entrant is outperforming most rivals but is intensely disliked.

A new poll seems to indicate that Democratic voters aren’t exactly jumping on the Mike Bloomberg train.

Mike Bloomberg is apparently entering the race for the Democratic nomination.

Michael Bloomberg is reportedly reconsidering his decision not to run for President.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is ending a Presidential bid nobody knew existed.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.

Pew has a new study that confirms our basic understanding of “independents.”

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.