Outside the Beltway

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

The Greatest Of All Time.

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is beginning to look beyond Bernie Sanders and talk about running mates.

A renewed internal GOP fight to stop Donald Trump seems to be doomed to fail.

As expected, Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, putting himself one step closer to becoming the Republican nominee for President.

Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.

The Commissioner of Major League Baseball has ruled that the lifetime ban issued against Pete Rose for betting on baseball will remain in effect.

A new report finds that the problems at the Secret Service are far deeper than previously known.

The nurse who was detained by New Jersey officials in a quarantine despite not displaying any symptoms of Ebola is suing Chris Christie and others for civil liberties violations.

In a speech in Florida, Joe Biden spoke about his possible run for the White House, and gave a very big hint that he’s leaning toward staying out of the race.

Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his post-debate meltdown, now the only question is what the polls will tell us when they come out.

The fallout from Donald Trump’s debate performance, and his comments afterward, continues, and it’s leading some to wonder if we may finally be at the end of this ridiculous charade.

Low costs and regulatory barriers are attracting people to red states–thus turning them purple and blue.

Tragedy in Tennessee.

Robert Gates, the former Defense Secretary who now serves as head of the Boy Scouts Of America, has called for an end to that organizations ban on gay Scout Leaders.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.

Jeb Bush will not participate in this year’s version of the Iowa Straw Poll.

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

We’re down to debating whether bigots should have to sell cakes to gay people.

Reversing a previous decision, Sony will allow The Interview to be screened in a small number of theaters.

NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.

More interesting developments from the Supreme Court on what has been one of the biggest legal stories of 2014.

As expected, the Senate passed the so-called “Cromnibus,” but not before a self-aggrandizing maneuver by Ted Cruz ended up being exploited by Democrats to pass outstanding nominations.

Some on the left are suggesting Democrats should write off the South for the foreseeable future, but that would be as foolish as Republicans assuming that their dominance in the region will last as long as Democratic dominance did in the century after the Civil War.

All the warnings of violence in the wake of an expected imminent announcement from the Grand Jury in the Michael brown case could become self-fulfilling prophecy.

Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie picked an odd issue on which to start his closing argument to Virginia voters.

The N.F.L. and the British Government are both behind the idea of a franchise in London, but the idea doesn’t really make sense for the league, or the game.

We’ve become aware of failures in how we’ve handled the Ebola situation. The response is to figure out what went wrong and do our best to fix it, not to panic.

Another health care worker in Dallas is being treated for exposure to the Ebola Virus.

A second case, and the first person to apparently contract Ebola on U.S. soil. But, that’s no reason to panic.

An inevitable outcome for the head of a once proud agency.

The security lapses at the Secret Service just continue to mount.

A major voting rights ruling out of North Carolina.

It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.

A somewhat surprising win in Georgia.