Outside the Beltway

The President is learning more about the Constitution every day.

Dan Drezner makes an interesting comparison.

The 58-year-old may have a post-presidency unmatched in history.

Who knew?

The President seems to be enjoying a mild rally effect.

An encouraging sign.

There’s very little upside.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

Anti-Biden ads using the former President’s words are being aimed at black voters.

CBS did a lousy job.

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

We’re going to make history one way or another in November.

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The clear winner was Donald Trump.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

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

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

The leading papers in Iowa and New Hampshire are backing Klobuchar and Warren, respectively.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

A bold new plan for security in the Middle East.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

Notwithstanding Russia’s weak position vis a vis the west, It’s Putin who seems to be winning.

For the third time in history, an American President has been impeached.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

George Zimmerman has filed a bizarre conspiracy theory-laden lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family, prosecutors, and others.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

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

Former President Obama has been largely quiet about the race for the Democratic nomination, but that may not last.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

The Republican Party is a cult with Donald Trump at the center and his ardent supporters are brainwashed cult members.

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

A new article puts Joe Biden’s gaffes and malapropisms in a new light.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

Reversing decades of policy, the Trump Administration reversed decades of policy on settlements in disputed territory.

Late last week, Attorney General William Barr demonstrated quite aptly the extent to which he has become just another Trump loyalist.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is running to get his old job back.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has entered the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination

The Supreme Court took up the DACA issue today. No matter what it decides, this will likely become a big issue in the 2020 elections.

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

Another bad night for Republicans in Virginia, and another warning sign for Republicans nationally.

Former President Obama called out so-called ‘woke’ culture in a talk late last week.