Outside the Beltway

Hillary Clinton’s two biggest challengers were ambushed at a progressive political convention over the weekend.

We are still a ways from actual voting–this needs to be remembered.

There’s another round of reports about Joe Biden running for President, but I wouldn’t put much stock them.

The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.

Relying on a particularly strained and incredulous legal analysis, the EEOC has ruled that laws against discrimination based on gender also bar discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.

Despite the clear language of the 14th Amendment, Texas is apparently refusing to issue birth certificates to some children born in the United States whose parents happen to be in the country illegally.

A new polls seems to show that Republicans are still clinging to their opposition to marriage equality in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has formally entered the race for President, but can he overcome his flip-flops and a turn to the hard right?

While “fundamentals” will have more impact on choosing our next president than what happens on the campaign trail, the race itself is important.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

A Republican political consultant says Hillary Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination.

The GOP’s Trump-induced headache isn’t going away any time soon.

For the first time since 1961, there will soon be an American Embassy in Havana, and a Cuban Embassy in Washington. It’s well past time that this happened.

SCOTUS has upheld the use of election commissions to draw Congressional district lines.

The era of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act is over.

Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.

Virginia Republicans are deciding later this week how they will make their choice in the 2016 Presidential Race. And they may end up regretting their decision.

To nobody’s surprise, Jeb Bush has entered the race for President.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

It will be some time before sanity prevails in the GOP, but slowly but surely Republicans seem to be becoming less socially conservative.

Kansas Republicans are threatening to cut off funding for the entire state judicial system if the state’s Supreme Court strikes down a law the legislature likes.

Even with a recent negative downturn in the polls, the reports of Hillary Clinton’s impending political demise are largely wishful thinking on the part of conservatives.

Turkey’s governing party suffered big setbacks at the ballot box yesterday.

Yet another poll shows that most Americans support a path to citizenship, and that a majority of Republican agree with them.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

In a new poll, a majority of Americans identify as “pro-choice,” but a deeper look at the numbers reveals that abortion politics remains as complicated as ever.

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2015, and that suggests the rest of the year isn’t going to be very good either.

The Supreme Court accepted a case that will require the Justices to decide just what it meant when it established the “one person, one vote” rule for drawing legislative districts.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer suggests that his fellow Congressmen and Senators are underpaid at $174,000 per year.

Republicans could learn a few things from the Tory victory in the recent British elections, but they are in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions.

Pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying to figure out why the polls released right up until the eve of the British General Election were so wrong. Here’s one theory, and it’s very compelling.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.

As expected, the Republican-controlled House passed a bill that would ban most abortions after twenty weeks. It also happens to be completely unconstitutional and has no chance of actually becoming law.

Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.

House Republicans are set to vote on a bill banning abortion in almost all cases after twenty weeks. What they can’t do is explain where the Constitution gives Congress the power to do this.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

Jeb Bush told a group of supporters that his brother is his top Middle East policy adviser. This strikes me as being a bad idea.

After weeks of polls predicting a political stalemate or worse, British voters delivered a strong win for David Cameron and the Tories.

The political outlook in the United Kingdom is as uncertain as it has ever been.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

A new poll has some bad news for Jeb Bush in the Hawkeye State, which leads to the idea that maybe he shouldn’t waste too much time there to begin with.