Outside the Beltway

Moscow helped Trump in 2016. Do they want him back?

Only the best people.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

In 2016, they were backing an extreme long-shot. Now, he’s the frontrunner.

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

How is the mayor of a modest-sized Midwestern city doing as well as he has?

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

We’re right back where we started.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

The leading papers in Iowa and New Hampshire are backing Klobuchar and Warren, respectively.

To defang impeachment is an invitation for presidents to ignore the rule of law.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Money has increasingly dominated American politics but the court case had little to do with it.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

The Trump campaign and the Republican Party brought in more than $150 million in the last three months of 2019 alone.

The truth is that many voters are paying attention to issues that have nothing to do with impeachment or simply ignoring politics altogether.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

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

President Trump is reportedly considering boycotting the General Election debates next fall.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

After a two-year investigation, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice found no basis for the conspiracy theories being pushed by the Republicans regarding the Russia investigation.

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

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

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

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

It’s time to start speculating about a brokered convention again,even though it probably isn’t going to happen.

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

POTUS believes, and is propagating, a conspiracy theory.

The latest poll out of New Hampshire shows four candidates at the top in a very close race.

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

An internal Justice Department investigation fails to find any evidence of political bias in the Russia investigation.

Lock her up?

The final two witnesses in this week’s public hearings before the House Intelligence Committee reduced the Republican talking points in the President’s defense looking as absurd as they have always been.

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.

One of Donald Trump”s closest associates has been convicted by a Federal jury.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has entered the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is reportedly considering a late entry into the race for the Democratic nomination.

A conservative columnist explains how once-Republican states are switching sides.

Mike Bloomberg is apparently entering the race for the Democratic nomination.

Governor Matt Bevin still won’t concede the Kentucky Governor’s race.