Outside the Beltway

The President is desperate and unwell and the press is making no bones about it.

It creates a veto gate that they are almost guaranteed to control when they need it.

Whether the 26th Amendment precludes giving preferential treatment to the elderly will have to wait for another day.

A reckoning for 2500 Kosovar Serb civilians who were slaughtered is at hand.

If the goal is to change politics, not just vent frustration, messaging is important.

Former prosecutors are suddenly “out.”

This is more about structural conditions than it is about the GOP.

It’s difficulty to have have a conversation with an albatross hanging over it.

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

Another allegation of Biden misbehavior that is another category altogether.

And a broader discussion of the ongoing Tara Reade story.

Especially for Joe Biden.

A much-needed call for unity.

A progressive idea that could win conservative support.

Sanders supporters need to get on the bus.

Some internal cracks in terms of continuing?

Ego trumps all?

Even amidst a national crisis, he refuses to do the right thing.

The former VP is focused on beating Bernie Sanders but his team is looking ahead.

The Democratic wagons continue to circle around Biden.

He’s repelling the people he needs to mount a comeback.

Is being ruled by the elderly a bad thing?

Playing nice? Or setting up a fight?

The inevitable has happened.

The wagons have been circled.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

He’s campaigning in her home state and Amy Klobuchar’s, too. And may win both.

Hopefully, the final tally for a contest that shouldn’t exist.

Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

Primaries are not all they are cracked up to be.

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

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

The precise distribution of 41 measly delegates is now known. Unless there’s a recount.

The caucus tallies are so riddled with errors that the DNC is calling for a recount.

He’s tanned, rested, and ready. But it ain’t happening.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

The Republicans are playing a different game.

The paper of record endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has decided against running for Senator Kansas, decision that could force the GOP to defend an otherwise safe seat.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

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

What lessons are there for the United States in general, and Democrats in particular, in last weeks British election?

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

Lindsey Graham faces a potentially interesting challenge in his 2020 re-election bid.

Especially Senate inaction.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust.

Kamala Harris’s once-promising campaign is nearing the end whether the candidate or her supporters wish to admit it or not.

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