Outside the Beltway

News outlets are hyping small swings in their surveys but the race is pretty much where it was when it began.

Rural Americans are much less likely to go to college than their urban counterparts. Is there a solution?

Can the commander-in-chief’s tweets be unlawful command influence?

Mayor Pete is raking in the dough.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

A new racist meme questioning Kamala Harris’s background is circulating on the Internet.

Not content with taking a wrecking ball to America’s trans-Atlantic alliances, the President is attacking our trans-Pacific allies as well.

The latest in the wars against liberalism.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment has joined the liberal bloc on several cases.

Is the Sanders-Warren position too extreme for the general election?

Democrats clashed, to some degree, in last night’s inaugural debate of the 2020 season but they clearly agreed far more than they disagreed.

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

The Pentagon has been headed by Acting Secretaries for an unprecedented period. Does it really matter?

The Trump Administration unveiled new sanctions against Iran yesterday. They’re unlikely to accomplish the entirely unrealistic goals the President claims to have in mind.

There are children being held in what amount to internment camps on the southern border under appallingly bad conditions and the President is more concerned with falsely blaming his predecessor for the problem.

Evidence appears to clearly established that Russia used many of the same social media efforts it used in the United States in 2016 to interfere in the recent European Parliament elections.

The costs to the American economy of President Trump’s ill-advised trade war continue to add up.

Following through on a threat made by the President earlier this week, immigration authorities are reportedly planning mass raids aimed primarily at immigrant families starting tomorrow.

Despite his claims, President Trump is actually deporting fewer people than were deported under former President Obama.

Much to the chagrin of Republicans hoping to win back a Senate seat they never should have lost, Roy Moore is running for Senate again in Alabama.

Democrats are trying to rein in President Trump. It won’t work.

Not surprisingly, the President’s opening speech of the 2020 campaign was filed with lies.

President Trump’s opening rally of the 2020 campaign sounded an awful lot like a rally from 2016

Patrick Shanahan is out as nominee to be Secretary of Defense after questions were raised during his background investigation.

While the world is largely focused on the much larger trade war with China, the United States is engaged in a similar battle with a nation that ought to be a natural ally.

Tensions are increasing in the Persian Gulf as the Iran war hawks seem to be winning the battle for the President’s support.

Benjamin Netanyahu named a town that doesn’t exist, and most probably will never exist, after the President of the United States.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

Just fire the pollster.

Boris Johnson is one step closer to becoming the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The participants for the two-night opening debate of the 2020 campaign season have been announced, and the candidates who were excluded aren’t happy.

Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump during the campaign and in the White House, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee.

President Trump says that he would not spy on a rival regime like North Korea, once again making one wonder where his loyalties lie.

While the scope of Federal power has expanded beyond the ken of the Framers, this is not an example.

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

A new poll shows the former Vice-President leading Senator Elizabeth Warren in her home state.

The State Department has barred American Embassies from flying the Pride Flag during Pride Month as has been the custom for several years.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

The current economic recovery turns ten years old this month, but it can’t last forever.

The latest iteration of a benchmark Iowa poll shows Joe Biden leading, with Bernie Sanders sinking and looking at several candidates closing in on him.

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would extend protection to DACA beneficiaries and other Dreamers, but it’s likely to die in the Senate.

May’s Jobs Report came back with disappointing jobs growth, suggesting that the economy may be slowing down.

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

The GOP Senators standing up against the President’s tariffs on Mexico are being called courageous. I’m wondering what took them so long to stand up.

A new poll of Texas voters shows President Trump doing worse than expected against potential Democratic challengers. Should Republicans be worried?

John Kasich hasn’t shut the door completely, but recent comments seem to make it clear he’s not likely to take on the President for the Republican nomination.

The White House is continuing to stonewall legitimate Congressional investigations, but Congress is starting to push back.

According to one new study, President Trump’s tweets aren’t having the same impact they used to.