Outside the Beltway

As widely expected, yesterday’s “jungle primary” in the Louisiana Governor’s race ended with nobody winning a majority.

With an eye on the trade war and the 2020 election, President Trump is increasing subsidies and mandates for corn-based ethanol.

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, had a lot to say when she testified before Congress yesterday.

Two associates of President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani were arrested on their way out of the country, and the question is what connection Giuliani may have to the reasons behind their arrest.

Barry Goldwater saw what the so-called “religious right” would become decades ago.

Republicans face a choice. Do they put their country first, or do they put their President first?

Expanding on yesterday afternoon’s post.

The liberal notion that people are persuadable through airing of ideas is obsolete.

Late last week, a Federal Judge in California placed on hold a state law requiring candidates to provide copies of their tax returns.

President Trump has reportedly pledged to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not speak out against Chinese actions in Hong Kong.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

Trying to nail down some basics about a very complicated situation.

A second potential whistleblower and an apparent criminal referral from the CIA’s top lawyer make a bad week even worse for Donald Trump.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

A somewhat disappointing jobs report for September.

More information released last night confirmed the extent to which the United States was linking progress on its relationship with Ukraine to an investigation of Joe Biden and his son.

Joe Biden reported a mostly successful fundraising quarter for the period that ended September 30th,

Donald Trump is now committing his crimes in public.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

A big haul for the GOP.

Bernie Sanders has slipped in the polls but retains his ability to raise money.

The time for sitting on the sidelines is over. Donald Trump cannot be allowed to get away with his usurpation of power, his disdain for the law, or his continued policies that have damaged the country.

The President’s attorney Rudy Giuliani is among the first to be served with a subpoena in connection with the newly-launched impeachment inquiry.

Trump threatens civil war if he’s removed from office.

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in he middle of an historic American scandal, and with a new nickname.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

Not surprisingly, there are other phone call transcripts and other communications that further complicate Trump’s position.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is getting the first shot at forming a new government. Whether he’ll succeed or not is another story.

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.

A blast from the past: two days before the Zelensky call.

The escalation has been rapid, dramatic, and warranted.

Late last week, a Federal Judge blocked a California law requiring candidates for President and other offices to make copies of their tax returns public.

Donald Trump is suing the District Attorney in Manhattan to stop him from getting copies of Trump’s tax returns.

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.

What we know for sure.

A familiar name has entered the race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Massachusetts.

For the most part, the third debate appears to have had little immediate impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

Eighteen years after it started, the American public seems to be mostly ignoring the war in Afghanistan. But that isn’t an excuse for not bringing it to an end.

A startling statistic that hides a more comforting reality.

The latest allegations about exactly what the President may have been trying to do in a phone call with a foreign leader that caught the attention of a whistleblower are becoming more serious by the day.

Far-left Democrats in Arizona want to punish Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being exactly the kind of Senator she said she’d be when she ran for office a year ago.

It’s still early in the election cycle but there’s plenty for the President to worry about.

Well that didn’t take long.

President Trump has named his fourth National Security Adviser in less than three years.

While some 135 House Democrats have endorsed impeaching the President, most other Democrats on Capitol Hill are not supporting the idea. And neither is Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The oldest living former President has some reflections on age and the strains of the office.

Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has hit the bottom of the barrel.