Outside the Beltway

Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb is running for President for reasons I would assume make sense to him.

When you’re being paid $65,000 to speak for less than an hour, you’re pretty much the poster child for privilege.

Bernie Sanders is closing in the polls, but it still seems as though it doesn’t mean as much as some political pundits will try to tell you it does.

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

Most Americans think that income inequality is a problem, but they don’t all agree on what to do about it.

The “Draft Warren” movement is basically dead.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

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.

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

Congressman Darrell Issa says that America’s poor are generally better off than the poor in the rest of the world. While he’s correct, he’s also incredibly tone deaf.

Bernie Sanders is running for President. He’s not going to win, but he’s not running because he thinks he can win.

There’s really no point in watching tonight’s speech.

While the issue of income inequality is quite real, Oxfam’s numbers are not.

Mitt Romney certainly seems to be running for president again. And he’s now on at least his third reinvention.

Elizabeth Warren said once again that she’s not running for President, now or in the future. That’s not going to stop the efforts to draft her, though.

Rick Perry is sounding for all the world like a candidate for President, and says he’s a different candidate this time, but initial perceptions are hard to overcome.

Former Senator Jim Webb is the first Democrat to kinda, sorta, throw his hat into the ring for 2016.

Some of his party’s leaders want the president to save them.

The former Virginia Senator is talking about running for President.

Alabamians like to exclaim, “Thank God for Mississippi.” Perhaps it’s time for that slogan to cross the Pond.

Hillary Clinton does not come across well when she tries to play the empathy card.

A prairie populist challenger for Hillary Clinton?

Republicans are winning with voters on the issues they say they care the most about.

The unequal distribution of social capital may be more important than the unequal distribution of income.

The “99 percent vs. the 1 percent” debate obscures the real income inequality picture.

Top Republican donors are starting to look at the former Governor of Florida as their candidate in 2016.

It’s simple: We just have to define the problem and then solve it.

The rich are getting richer and more politically powerful.

The Occupy movement began one year ago today. It’s no surprise that it ended up being a failure.

Has the Romney campaign foolishly abandoned its best argument against the President?

All the available evidence suggest that the Occupy movement has fizzled away into virtual nothingness.

“Can Domestic Policy Affect Income Distribution?” Why, yes, yes it can.

The Obama Administration introduced a corporate tax reform plan that doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Have Americans divided themselves into what are becoming increasingly different cultures?

The reaction to the release of Mitt Romney’s tax returns is about what you’d expect.

Mitt Romney has a bit of a tax return dilemma.

More in common than they might think.

Barack Obama now looks to the Rough Rider himself for inspiration. Can’t he find it himself?

Rick Santorum has some extreme views on social welfare. Of course, he isn’t alone.

Life, it turns out, isn’t fair.

Now that Occupy Wall Street is unable to occupy Wall Street, its leaders will have to come up with new ways to keep the pressure on. Some crazies are threatening to take the movement over in the meantime.

Well, maybe not so brief…

Increasing taxes on the rich may be a fiscal policy worth talking about, but it won’t make the poor richer.

What do this people want? Can’t you read the signs?

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor abruptly canceled a long-scheduled speech to the Wharton Business School after school officials changed the guest list.

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

Some perspective on “soaking the rich.”