Outside the Beltway

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

The House Judiciary Committee has issued its report on the impeachment of President Trump.

The trial phase of the Trump impeachment is set to be an absolute partisan joke.

For only the fourth time in history, the House Judiciary Committee has approved Articles of Impeachment against a sitting President.

Donald Trump proves once again that there are no boundaries he won’t cross.

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.

WIth North Korea’s end of the year deadline for progress on talks quickly approaching, it is clear that the Trump Administration’s policies with regard to the DPRK have failed.

Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.

November saw much higher jobs growth than economic analysts were expecting, but it could just be a statistical blip.

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.

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

Kamala Harris, whose campaign has been floundering for months, is out of the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

Later today, California Congressman Duncan Hunter, Jr. will plead guilty to charges of embezzling up to $250,000 from his campaign’s bank account.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

Seeking to have a US citizen investigated by a foreign government based on innuendo is a major problem.

Further evidence that the Republican Party has turned into a cult of personalty built around Donald Trump.

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

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

Given the times we live in, you may be tempted to argue about politics tomorrow. Here’s my advice — don’t do it.

Donald Trump’s pardons of soldiers convicted of war crimes sends the wrong message to the military, to our allies, and to the world.

After two weeks of hearings, public opinion has not moved very much on the impeachment of the President.

The House Judiciary Committee is ready to begin its phase of impeachment hearings after Thanksgiving.

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

Under the Democratic National Committee’s current qualification rules, Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign means he wouldn’t qualify for any future debate. He doesn’t seem worried about that.

An ongoing attempt to summarize the complex.

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

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent the weekend in the hospital over concerns about a possible infection.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks ready to jump ship in favor of a run for Senate,

A new article puts Joe Biden’s gaffes and malapropisms in a new light.

A Senate Impeachment trial in early January would have a serious impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

The Trump Administration’s strategy in North Korea is an utter failure.

After a long day of hearings, the case against the President is becoming clearer and Republican defenses becoming more absurd.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden continues to hold a strong lead in South Carolina even while slipping in other early states.

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.

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

In what many are seeing as a rebuke of the President, Louisiana voters re-elected Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards over his Republican opponent.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt President Trump another setback in his effort to keep his financial records out of Congressional hands.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is running to get his old job back.

A new poll shows Pete Buttigieg surging in Iowa, where the Caucuses are 92 days away.

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

We won’t have Sean Spicer to ikick around anymore.

After just two months, Mark Sanford is dropping his challenge to the incumbent President.

French President Emmanuel Macron declared that the NATO alliance is suffering brain death due to President Trump’s neglect and lack of leadership.

A new poll seems to indicate that Democratic voters aren’t exactly jumping on the Mike Bloomberg train.