Outside the Beltway

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

One of the Cold War era’s last dictators has finally died.

The fight for marijuana legalization advances in California.

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

If polls are any indication, voters are set to legalize marijuana in five more states on Tuesday.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Seven days from now, millions of Americans will be headed to the polls. So far at least, Hillary Clinton is still the front runner.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

It just keeps getting worse.

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

Californians are set to vote on marijuana legalization in November and, this time, it looks like it will pass.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

A group of states led by Texas has filed a suit in response to new guidelines from the Federal Government regarding the rights of transgender students.

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

To the surprise of no one, the alliance between Ted Cruz and John Kasich is already falling apart.

In a huge step forward for criminal justice reform, Virginia’s Governor has restored voting rights for some 200,000 people who have paid their debt to society.

Woman who liberated slaves to replace slaveholding President who presided over Native American genocide on American currency.

Nebraska legislators are talking about abandoning their somewhat unique method of allocating Electoral College votes.

Two Republicans who broke with their party to support hearings for Judge Merrick Garland have changed their minds and gotten back in line with the Senate GOP Caucus.

Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.

Ohio Governor John Kasich cannot win a majority of delegates at this point, but he’s still resisting calls to drop out of the race.

It increasingly appears that the GOP is on the losing side of the argument over whether to hold hearings and a vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

A crack in the wall.

President Obama has selected his nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court, now the question is whether the Senate will act.

Bernie Sanders won two of the three Democratic contests last night, but he fell further behind in the delegate count any way and isn’t very far from being mathematically eliminated.

Donald Trump and Ted Cruz split the wins on ‘Super Saturday,’ while Marco Rubio and John Kasich continue to struggle for relevance in the 2016 race.

They haven’t gotten much attention, but there are five contests today as the 2016 nomination process continues to move forward.

Donald Trump canceled his speech at CPAC, but it’s unlikely to harm his campaign at all.

It seems increasingly apparent that the only way to stop Donald Trump now is by trying to force a contested convention. It also seems clear that such a plan probably wouldn’t succeed.

With time running out, the top three candidates for the Republican nomination picked up right where they left off last week.

As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.

Ever since last week’s debate, the race for the Republican nomination has come to resemble a schoolyard fight among a bunch of nine year-olds.

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions became the latest prominent Republican to endorse Donald Trump, but there are a lot more Republicans who are starting to panic over what Trump could do to their party.

Two more Republican Governors endorse Donald Trump.

With one surprise endorsement, Donald Trump stole the post-debate news cycle from Marco Rubio.

Notwithstanding polling that indicates the American public disagrees with them, Senate Republicans emerged from a meeting today largely united on the idea of not giving any Supreme Court nominee named by President a hearing, or even the courtesy of a meeting.

With almost no sign that he’ll be able to turn his campaign around, many of Jeb Bush’s top campaign donors are looking to jump ship to other candidates.

The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Outbreak that began in 2014 to be officially over.

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

Delaware has become the latest state to liberalize its laws regarding marijuana.

Syrian refugees have quickly become political footballs in the United States in the wake of the Paris attacks, and it’s become an exceedingly shameful display of pandering and fearmongering by a group of largely Republican politicians.

The nurse who was detained by New Jersey officials in a quarantine despite not displaying any symptoms of Ebola is suing Chris Christie and others for civil liberties violations.

Public support for marijuana legalization continues to rise. As with the marriage equality movement, it’s obvious where this will end, The only question is how long it will take to get there.