Outside the Beltway

Call-out culture has become a circular firing squad.

Her emphasis on turnout has helped other Democrats but she’s a two-time loser.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

The media coverage continues on script.

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

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

She decries swanky fundraisers and big money donors while benefiting from both.

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.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

Democrats have pulled the trigger and essentially eliminated the power of superdelegates except in the unlikely event that a nominating convention goes to a second ballot.

The Democratic National Committee is one step closer to adopting a rule change that would make superdelegates largely irrelevant to the party’s nomination process.

Even the most offensive speech is protected by the First Amendment.

In what seems like a replay of the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, some top Democratic Party leadership positions may be in jeopardy.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

We will have a two party system for the foreseeable future.

A pair of new national polls shows a new trend in the GOP race heading into the final debate of 2015.

Polls are quite useful in the right circumstances, but knowledge, complexity, and timing all have to be taken into account in determining what they are telling us.

Several recent nominees were flailing at this point in those cycles.

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

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

Who do the Democrats have to take Joe Biden’s place?

It may not be the one thing that costs him election, but Mitt Romney’s remarks about the “47 percent” are still a problem for his campaign.

With Facebook’s huge IPO in the news, Megan Garber takes a look at how much the Internet has evolved since Thefacebook came on the scene.

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

Our political scene has changed drastically since Bob Kerrey was last in the Senate.

From across the pond, an observation that the way we pick Presidents isn’t really that bad after all.

Last night’s GOP debate was a two-man affair.

Does it matter which candidate the GOP nominates?

Barack Obama’s leadership style may be his undoing.

When John McCain declared that Sarah Palin could beat President Obama, it was easy to dismiss. But when the architect of the Democratic strategy in 2008, says the same thing, you have to listen.

I don’t feel the jubilation that came with Saddam Hussein’s capture in December 2003. Sadly, I know better this time.

What, if anything, does the budget deal mean for the future?

President Obama’s selection of Bill Daley as Chief of Staff is being seen as a sign that the White House is moving to the center and gearing up for 2012.

Even though it will likely be unsuccessful, a primary challenge against President Obama could end up harming him enough to hand Republicans the White House in 2012.

A call for ideological purity in the Democratic Party in today’s New York Times demonstrates that Democrats can be just as foolish as Republicans.