Outside the Beltway

In 1992, an eccentric billionaire ran an independent campaign against a Bush and a Clinton. It could happen again.

Hillary Clinton has suffered drops in her favorability numbers lately, but that may not mean much for 2016.

Donald Trump won’t rule out running against the eventual Republican nominee. Will the RNC use this as an excuse to try to force him out of the race?

Polling in three battleground states shows Hillary Clinton slightly trailing three top Republicans, but it means far less than you might think.

Ohio Governor John Kasich looks good on paper, but his campaign seems as though it’s unlikely to get out of the starting gate.

While “fundamentals” will have more impact on choosing our next president than what happens on the campaign trail, the race itself is important.

Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is likely going to Federal Prison very soon.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

When you’re being paid $65,000 to speak for less than an hour, you’re pretty much the poster child for privilege.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

A Federal Appeals Court In Washington has ruled that the military tribunal convictions of one group of Guantanamo Bay detainees was unconstitutional.

House Democrats defied President Obama on an important trade deal today, thus arguably marking the official beginning of his lame duck status.

Being required to demonstrate competency in liberal arts to teach is racially discriminatory, a federal judge has ruled.

A thirty-seven year long drought is over.

A new poll shows that Americans have moved to the left on a wide variety of social issues.

The Clinton Foundation has disclosed that there were $26 million in donations that it had failed to disclose while Hillary was Secretary of State.

A new Gallup poll puts support for same-sex marriage above 60% for the first time ever.

Hillary Clinton is a deeply flawed candidate who might not even make a very good President. But that doesn’t matter in the race for the Democratic Nomination, and she’s probably going to be the next President anyway.

Republicans could learn a few things from the Tory victory in the recent British elections, but they are in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions.

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

George Stephanopoulos’ s ties to the Clinton’s have always raised questions about his objectivity. Now, there’s further reason to doubt that he can play fair when the Clinton’s are part of the story he’s covering.

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

Mike Huckabee’s back, but the 2008 magic is gone.

Former President Clinton doesn’t seem to get it. Or, does he?

The Clinton Foundation’s foreign donations continue to be a problem for the Clinton campaign, and the story isn’t likely to go away any time soon.

Far from being a positive, Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State provides ample material for those who would attack her over the next eighteen months.

A series of mini-scandals point to the conflicts of interest around the Clintons.

A new report ties undisclosed donations to the Clinton Foundation to a Russian company’s acquisition of controlling interest in a major uranium mining company.

The Holocaust was a very atypical case of genocide.

New allegations regarding foreign government donations to the Clinton Foundation seem likely to become a campaign issue.

The “racism” debate brought about by Barack Obama in 2000 is getting a spin-off.

After declining to run in 2012, Mike Huckabee’s entry into the 2016 race seems fairly certain.

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

The scandal that will make everyone forget about Benghazi.

So, she’s in.

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

Hillary Clinton addressed the week-long email controversy, but her explanations only raised new questions.

Do the nonprofit’s foreign donors create a conflict of interest?

The January Jobs Report showed that the trend of strong jobs growth we saw in 2014 appears to be continuing into the new year.

John McCain is not a fan of Code Pink.

Advantage: Hillary.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is not running for President, and she is unlikely to change her mind on that. Nonetheless, the speculation that she is will continue for some time to come because it suits her interests and the interests of others.