Outside the Beltway

Clarence Thomas is the latest Supreme Court Justice to be the subject of retirement rumors. You should treat these rumors skeptically.

Bernie Sanders’ refusal to admit that his campaign is over is costing you up to $38,000 per day.

A purported ‘short list’ of potential running mates for Hillary Clinton is out. Here’s how the candidates stack up.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to realize that the political world has already moved past the race for the Democratic nomination.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.

Marco Rubio may be running for re-election to the Senate after all.

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

A new poll shows that public opinion about Donald Trump is at the lowest point its been since he entered the race. That bodes poorly for Trump, and for the the political party that has chosen to nominate him for President.

Hillary Clinton easily won the final contest of the 2016 primary season, and the Clinton-Sanders reconciliation dance began.

Donald Trump continues his war on freedom of the press and reporters who cover him critically by barring The Washington Post from covering campaign events.

Libertarian Party Presidential nominee Gary Johnson is doing quite well in the polls, when pollsters bother to include him.

Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.

Republican insiders are apparently still looking at ways to stop Donald Trump at a convention. It’s far too late for that, guys.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals deals a setback to the gun rights movement.

Hillary Clinton has a slight lead in national polling over Donald Trump as the battle for the White House really begins.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee. A marked contrast to the chaos that reigns on the Republican side of the aisle.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

The cartoonist and student of human psychology is fascinated by the con artist who would be president.

With top Republicans recoiling from the realization that the GOP is stuck with Trump in 2016, the ground seems to be being prepared for a conflict that could tear the GOP apart regardless of who wins in November.

Hillary Clinton won the final Super Tuesday of the 2016 primary season, thus officially sending us into what promises to be among the most contentious General Election battles in recent memory.

Continuing the fight at this point is not just Quixotic, it’s unsporting.

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.

An historic achievement.

One media critic is arguing that news organizations should ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton will become the Presumptive Democratic Nominee tomorrow. This is utterly ridiculous.

Closer to making history.

The relatively unknown candidate that Bill Kristol floated as the “Never Trump” alternative has announced he’s not running for President.

Bernie Sanders is continuing to let his supporters believe he has a chance to win the Democratic nomination. He is either delusional, or he is lying to his supporters.

The May Jobs Report was bad all-around. The question is whether this will come to be seen as an anomaly or the beginning of a worrisome trend.

After initially expressing doubts about his candidacy, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has lined up behind Donald Trump.

Bill Kristol’s plan to stop Donald Trump involves a long shot independent bid for the White House by someone most Americans have never heard of before.

Hillary Clinton is hoping to avoid an embarrassing loss in California to Bernie Sanders, and she just got some help from an unlikely source.

With two former Republican governors running under its banner, is there such a thing as a “Libertarian Party”?

Donald Trump is apparently having money troubles.

A commenter asks what the consequences ought be for Clinton’s transgressions.

With Republicans in Trump-induced disarray, Libertarians are meeting to pick their nominee and the hope that 2016 could be the year their party finally gets the attention it has craved for four decades.

Donald Trump would be a horrible president. That doesn’t justify Hillary Clinton’s bad acts.

Yes, Colin Powell used private email too. No, it’s not the same thing. No, it’s not because he was a Republican.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

A bad day for the Clinton campaign.

Donald Trump is now just 28 delegates away from clinching the GOP nomination. New Jersey’s primary on June 7th will put him over the top.

For Donald Trump at least, the start of the General Election campaign is the perfect time to dredge up decades old conspiracy theories.

Some of the GOP’s top donors still aren’t sold on Donald Trump.

Even as it becomes more and more apparent that he cannot win the Democratic nomination for President, Bernie Sanders is not letting up on his rhetoric against the leadership of the party he claims he’ll support in November.

A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.

It’s not going to happen.