Outside the Beltway

Everything you always wanted in a hearing. And less.

Robert Mueller didn’t provide a smoking gun yesterday, but the President and his supporters are wrong to claim that the hearing vindicated the President.

Starting at 8:30 a.m. this morning, the eyes and ears of Washington and much of the nation will be focus on one thing, the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.

The President’s approval is up and disapproval down after the latest incidents.

An Army appellate court has rejected an appeal filed by Bowe Bergdahl that argued that the President’s attacks on him while a candidate unfairly influenced his court martial.

The DNC has $9.3 million to the RNC’s $44 million.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already has a Republican challenger, but she doesn’t really need to worry about it.

The President’s decision to base his re-election campaign on racism and stoking racial and ethnic divisions is quite simple to explain.

Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Primary by a huge margin in 2016. This time, he’s slipping in the polls as other candidates rise ahead of him.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

Bernie Sanders is finding that the 2020 campaign is very different from 2016.

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are up, and Bernie Sanders is down, in the first state-level poll since the debates.

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

The first Democratic debate drew record numbers on both nights.

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.

Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before Congress in public. Testimony that is likely to be the big story of the summer.

With the first Democratic debate set to begin tonight, it’s a good time to take a look at the state of the race.

The latest is about deportations

Another woman has accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her some 20 years ago.

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.

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

The lineups for the first Democratic debate of the 2020 season are set but some candidates are likely to be unhappy.

A trio of new polls shows Elizabeth Warren slipping past Bernie Sanders into second place in the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination

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

Is it really such a bad thing when a politician changes a long-help position on a political issue?

Donald Trump continues to lie at a record pace. Does anyone care?

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.

Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.

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

His colum in WaPo isn’t very good.

Republicans nationwide are trying to discourage Roy Moore from running for Senate again. Roy Moore doesn’t care.

Just over a month after he entered the race, Joe Biden has a commanding lead over his fellow Democrats while Bernie Sanders has several candidates hot on his heels.

Mitch McConnell has had an unsurprising change of heart on the issue of Senate consideration of Supreme Court nominees in a Presidential election year.

Most of us define ourselves largely through our jobs. That’s increasingly a problem.

The size of the Democratic Presidential field, combined with other things peculiar to the way Democrats pick their nominee, is leading some to wonder if we might see a brokered convention in 2020.

Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.

Based on the early stages of the campaign for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, it appears as though the party’s progressive wing has misread the signals being sent by the party’s voters.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has entered the race for the Democratic nomination for President, making him the 23rd candidate in an already crowded field.

A new poll shows President Trump trailing several of his potential challenger in a state that was crucial to his victory in 2016.

A new poll indicates that at least some Democrats continue to hold Biden’s 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War.

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

Attorney General William Barr has opened a new investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, a move that seems suspiciously political.

Two youngish Rhodes Scholars turned mayors are getting covered differently.

More good news for Joe Biden, this time out of South Carolina.

The President’s eldest son has been subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding Trump campaign contacts with Russia.

Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent whose identity was outed during the Bush Administration, is running for Congress in New Mexico.

The Trump Administration is taking an unnecessarily militaristic approach toward Iran, and that poses real dangers for the country and for the Middle East.