Outside the Beltway

Rex Tillerson was an awful Secretary of State who simply had to go, It’s quite possible his successor will be an even greater disaster.

Next up: Pompeo

A better than expected jobs report for February, but wage growth slowed for the month.

Despite the activism we’ve seen in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, it’s unlikely that we’ll see significant Congressional action on guns.

A Federal Judge In Kansas has blocked enforcement of a state law barring anyone who does business with the state from engaging in a boycott of Israel.

Two Amtrak crashes in less than a week is newsworthy. It is not, however, a trend.

Chelsea Manning is running for Senate, but she may be violating military regulations by doing so.

President Trump has shut down the commission he established to investigate unsupported claims of “voter fraud” in the 2016 election.

With time running out in the year, it’s looking increasingly unlikely that the Senate GOP will be able to meet its deadlines on passing a tax reform bill.

A legal setback for Ezekiel Elliott and the Dallas Cowboys.

The band leader of the Heartbreakers and the Traveling Wilburys is gone.

The president’s begrudging condemnation of evil didn’t last long.

It’s time to stop honoring the symbols of a nation of racist traitors.

“Why the hell would we do that?” — White House official.

A Duke history professor uncovers “stealth plan” by “fifth columnists” who are seeking to overthrow democracy in the U.S. for their plutocrat masters.

With the defection of two more Senators, the latest effort to ‘repeal and replace’ the Affordable Care Act has gone down in flames.

The Senate is back from its recess, but no closer to a health care bill that has any realistic chance of passing.

Senate Republicans are back home and hearing from their constituents on health care reform. It’s not going well for them.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

The Senate GOP health care reform care bill faces a crucial week, and things aren’t looking good.

In one of the most closely watched Special Elections in American history, the outcome turned out to be not entirely surprising.

Puerto Rican voters voted overwhelmingly for statehood yesterday in a referendum whose legitimacy is being questioned due to boycotts by opposition parties.

There’s a Special Election in Montana tomorrow, and the Democratic candidate is performing far above expectations.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

Republicans held on to Mike Pompeo’s seat in the House, but the outcome was closer than many expected.

It was both the best speech Trump has ever given and the worst presidential address I can recall

There were fireworks on the floor of the Senate last night, but it was really just politics as usual.

It seems as though 2016 has taken many more celebrities lives than past years.

The Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates for only the second time in a decade, but it still seems like it’s chasing an inflation monster that doesn’t exist.

Three of the top four national security positions in Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be filled by retired Generals. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.

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

Alabama’s Jeff Sessions will become the nation’s top law enforcement officer. That’s not a good thing.

In which I use a lot of words to say hello.

Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.

A drought that began when Theodore Roosevelt was President has finally come to an end.

An unsurprising decision from the Federal Reserve.

A Federal Judge in North Dakota has struck down that state’s Voter ID Law, the fourth such decision in less than a month.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

Another targeted killing aimed at police.

Once again, the Federal Reserve chooses to pass on the opportunity to raise interest rates.

In an unprecedented move that reeks of desperation, Ted Cruz is naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate before the primary process has even ended.

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

How much command of detail should we demand of presidential candidates?