Outside the Beltway

There’s a Special Election in Montana tomorrow, and the Democratic candidate is performing far above expectations.

The FBI Director faced a damned if you do, damned if you don’t choice.

Predicting election outcomes is different than predicting impeachment.

Inconceivably, Steve Bannon thought that clashing with President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law was a good idea. He’s likely learned his lesson now.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

Stop romanticizing the filibuster (and don’t appeal to the intent of the Founders).

Two new polls show Donald Trump hitting new lows in the polls as we get closer to his 100th day in office.

Lt. General Michael Flynn wants immunity before he agrees to testify before Congress. This could be significant, or it could mean nothing at all.

Health care policy analysts seem united in their assessment of the House GOP’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, and it’s overwhelmingly negative.

It was both the best speech Trump has ever given and the worst presidential address I can recall

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration has revoked guidelines to public schools that required accommodation of transgender students.

Members of Congress and the Senate are once again facing down angry constituents, but it’s unclear whether it will translate into anything substantial in 2018.

Technology continues to make more and more jobs unnecessary and irrelevant. And the consequences are going to be widespread.

Megaprojects are not a partisan thing. Megaprojects are large projects typically costing more than $1 billion and often tens of billions of dollars and impacting the lives of tens of thousands of people if not millions.

President Trump reverses a decision made by President Obama just over a year ago.

The reality of global climate change made itself evident again in 2016.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

Big news in the war against a horrible virus.

To nobody’s surprise, Dylann Roof was convicted of the race-motivated murders in a Charleston church.

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

I’m in the New York Times’ “Room for Debate” with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Duke’s Peter Feaver.

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

Canada is phasing out coal as a source of electricity production by 2030. The same thing will happen in the United States no matter how much politicians try to stop it.

Trying to make sense of that which makes no sense.

A drought that began when Theodore Roosevelt was President has finally come to an end.

Early voting is favoring Democrats in a wide variety of swing states.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

If you want to volunteer for Donald Trump, you’ll have to agree to never disparage Trump, his family, his campaign, or any of his businesses. Forever.

As expected, Marco Rubio easily won the primary for his Senate seat. The General Election battle, though, promises to be more difficult.

For largely irrational reasons, French police are arresting women on the beach for wearing swimsuits that are compatible with their faith.

A Federal Court has barred the Federal Government from enforcing guidelines on the rights of transgender students in public schools.

Big change at America’s most-watched cable news network.

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

Well that took long enough.

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

If the allegations of a new lawsuit are true, things are truly lurid behind the scenes at Fox News Channel.

Backers of the losing candidate for the Democratic nomination are surprised that they’re not getting their way.

Americans have increasingly come to view their political opponents as not just wrong, but evil, stupid, and immoral. That’s not something that makes for a healthy representative democratic republic.

Once again, the Federal Reserve chooses to pass on the opportunity to raise interest rates.

The May Jobs Report was bad all-around. The question is whether this will come to be seen as an anomaly or the beginning of a worrisome trend.

Begun, the bathroom wars have.

Bernie Sanders won another primary last night, but he continues to fall behind in the race for delegates nonetheless.

Thanks largely to the fact that she has moved left on coal, Hillary Clinton seems likely to lose today’s West Virginia primary. But it will have only a minimal impact on Clinton’s quest for a delegate majority.

If these numbers hold up, then the GOP may as well start planning for the 2020 primaries now.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have come up with yet another plan to stop Donald Trump.