Outside the Beltway

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

“We are a cancer and there is no cure,”

The weirdness of Internet outrage culture.

The longtime Fox News host has re-emerged at an unusual spot.

A marked rise in shooting deaths is going largely unnoticed.

Every Democratic woman seems to be under consideration.

President Trump can’t handle the truth.

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

This isn’t what leadership looks like.

Trump’s approach from the beginning has been reality-denying. It makes it difficult to take anything the administration proposed seriously.

We may be seeing the beginning of the end.

The longtime talking head is the latest poster boy for #MeToo. And mandatory retirement.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.

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

As Republicans and their conservative cohorts spread a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 election, Vladimir Putin smiles at yet another victory.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

Today begins another week of impeachment hearings by the House Intelligence Committee. By the time the smoke clears, the ground could have shifted significantly for the President.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

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

Day two of Congressional impeachment hearings will be marked by the testimony of the former American Ambassador to Ukraine.

In a few short hours, the House Intelligence Committee begins the public phase of its impeachment inquiry.

One political scientist says yes. A bunch of others say wait, what?

The fourth Democratic debate saw a viewership dip from September, but there are likely some good reasons for that.

An empty column with a seed of one good point buried in a bunch of nothing.

Working as the President’s private attorney, Rudy Giuliani has spent months working behind the scenes to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.

The White House has succeeded in killing, for now, the White House Daily Press Briefing and in making itself the least transparent Administration in recent history.

Obvious advice is obvious.

Eighteen years after the September 11th attacks, it’s becoming harder to remember what the world used to be like.

Mark Halperin, the former MSNBC political analyst who was accused of misconduct during the height of the #MeToo Movement, is trying to make a comeback with a new book.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Rich candidates are buying artificial donors to stay in the contest.

It looks like fewer people are tuning in for the second Democratic debate.

Despite all the complaining, we’re in a golden age of political and policy coverage.

Wednesday’s Congressional testimony by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller wasn’t exactly a ratings blockbuster.

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

How insidious talking points spread in the modern media environment.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

We won’t have a little-known Congressman from somewhereoranother to kick around any more.

Should the pundit class look more like America?

The first Democratic debate drew record numbers on both nights.

Stephanie Grisham, presently a top aide to First Lady Melania Trump, has been named the new White House Press Secretary and Communications Director.

A Florida Woman is being charged with felony burglary after breaking into her estranged husband’s apartment to seize his guns and give them to the police.

Trump and Iran.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving office at the end of the month.

Donald Trump has betrayed the legacy and the sacrifices of the soldiers who fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy.