Outside the Beltway

The situation in the Middle East just potentially became much more complicated.

Good thing the world is a static, simple place…

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Debunked!

The real model for Trump’s team is neither Abraham Lincoln nor Andrew Jackson but The Simpson’s Mr. Burns with a room full of Waylon Smithers-types.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

Apparently, even people who support Donald Trump don’t believe his claim that he can get Mexico to pay for his border wall.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

Over the course of twenty-four hours, Donald Trump has had three separate positions on how he’d deal with illegal immigrants already in the country.

Donald Trump is signaling a big shift in his immigration position.

A report over the weekend raises questions about whether or not Donald Trump is changing positions on a central tenet of his campaign.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Things aren’t pretty inside the House of Trump these days.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

The worst convention in history has given Trump a yuuge bounce.

Ted Cruz’s convention speech was about what you’d expect, a gamble designed to set up his campaign for President in 2020 or beyond.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.