Outside the Beltway

For some reason, Joe Lieberman is apparently the front-runner to replace James Comey at the F.B.I.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

The tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro is set to become the latest member of the NATO alliance despite the fact that there is seemingly no good reason for it.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions apparently misled Senators when asked about his contact with Russian officials.

President Trump has actually made a good pick for National Security Adviser. As with the rest of his foreign policy team, though, the question is if he’ll listen to him.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

It is Trump’s party now. Impeachment is not coming.

President Trump hinted today that he’s likely to name his Supreme Court choice next week, and the list to appears have narrowed to three men.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

The head of the biggest energy company in the world is reportedly Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of State.

In the end, there was no other logical choice.

Donald Trump claims he won an Electoral College landslide. This is a bald-faced lie.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

Senior Republican Senators are throwing cold water on the idea of eliminating the filibuster.

Defying the odds, Republicans held on in several traditionally Democratic states to keep control of the Senate.

With Donald Trump on the ballot, Bill Maher regrets some past words. He shouldn’t be the only one.

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

Two Republican Senators are exchanging barbs over the idea that the GOP should block any attempt by Hillary Clinton to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court if she becomes President.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

Has any major party nominee for president ever damaged his reputation in this manner?

Donald Trump is losing something much more important to him that an election.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

With the lone exception of Bill Clinton in 1996, Arizona hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1948. That streak could end this year.

John McCain said that Senate Republicans will unite to block any Supreme Court appointment by a President Hillary Clinton.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

A Trump loss in November could lead to battles inside the GOP that could take years to resolve.

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

Another day, another round of irresponsible demagoguery from Donald Trump.

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

It just keeps getting worse.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,