Outside the Beltway

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

The Speaker says she will reject any attempt to deliver it in a “highly classified” manner.

Predictably, news that the investigation has ended has people on both sides cheering. It’s unwarranted.

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

A bipartisan group of foreign policy luminaries says there is no factual basis for President Trump’s claim.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabby Giffords, is running for Senate in Arizona against Martha McSally.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

President Trump’s detailed schedules reveal a man who doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually working.

Is benefitting politically from romantic liaisons different than other relationships?

The way we elect Presidents make it unlikely that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz could ever actually win the the Presidency.

There’s a way that Congress and the President could make future government shutdowns impossible, but they probably won’t do it.

A leading conservative makes a truly bizarre defense of the President.

The Speaker is well within her rights to make Trump’s invitation conditional on ending the shutdown. But let’s not pretend we can’t keep him safe.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest Democratic entrant into the 2020 race for President.

Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.

Two years of Republican control of the Legislative and Executive Branches has put us back on a path toward $1 trillion budget deficits.

The government entered its third shutdown of the year with little sign of an immediate resolution.

Mystery continues to surround a proceeding that has been making its way through the Federal Courts in Washington, D.C.

President Trump’s first choice to replace John Kelly as Chief of Staff turned the job down, leading one to wonder why anyone would want the job.

Honoring the 41st President cast a poor light on the 45th.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

A state trial court Judge in New York rejected efforts by the Donald Trump to halt a lawsuit alleging charity fraud in connection with the operation of The Trump Foundation.

Once again, Republicans in California find themselves looking up and seeing a lot of desolation. They need to find a way to bounce back.

With their House majority secure, Democrats must now select their leadership team for the next two years. It’s not going smoothly.

Whether as candidates or as voters, Democrats can thank women for many of their victories on Tuesday.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

The GOP is likely to lose control of the House of Representatives tomorrow, but could this actually help Trump?

On Wednesday Trump tweeted out a crass, dishonest ad in hopes of leveraging fear and racism as a political tool.

A bunch of mysteriously sealed filings in Federal Court in D.C. could mean that Robert Mueller has already subpoenaed the President.

Surely a celebrity hound with no political experience can’t become President. Right?

Hillary Clinton is hinting about maybe running in 2020 again. Is she serious, or is this just a publicity stunt?

America’s tradition of unlimited free expression increases the danger of violence.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she has no intention of running for President in 2020.

Four suspicious packages addressed to prominent political and media figures have been intercepted in the past three days.

A new poll shows a decided turn toward the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator in Florida, but it may be an outlier.

Math rules.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

Beto O’Rourke isn’t eager to get Barack Obama’s endorsement, but there’s a good reason why.

I’ve changed my mind on a couple of things and hardened my opinion on others.

Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.

President Trump claims that November will see a “red wave” rather than the “blue wave” that most analysts are expecting. There’s no evidence to support his hypothesis.

The Federal Budget Deficit is set to end the Fiscal Year close to $1 trillion, and to continue growing after that.

Former President Obama took on his successor in his first major political speeches since leaving office.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.