Outside the Beltway

In addition to doing everything she needed to do last night, Hillary Clinton also destroyed whatever logic remained for a Joe Biden candidacy.

Obama’s first Secretary of State has come out against Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership.

Hillary Clinton seems to be bouncing back from recent troubles in the latest national poll, but Vice-President Biden is starting to rise in the polls before even getting in the race.

Bernie Sanders has jumped ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Hawkeye State.

At least on paper, Senate Democrats now have enough votes to block the Senate from voting on a resolution disapproving of the Iran Nuclear Deal.

Bernie Sanders continues to cause Hillary Clinton problems, and Joe Biden could cause more if he enters the race.

President Obama now has enough votes in the Senate, and probably the House, to ensure that Congress cannot block the nuclear deal with Iran.

A new poll shows Bernie Sanders gaining traction outside of New Hampshire for the first time.

Some of Hillary Clinton’s Democratic opponents are complaining about the DNC’s parsimonious debate schedule.

“Fiscal conservative” Scott Walker is handing Wisconsin taxpayers a $400 million bill for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks.

A new poll shows Bernie Sanders ahead of Hillary Clinton, but within the margin of error, in New Hampshire. But a deeper examination suggests that Bernie-mentum is a mile wide and an inch deep.

The What Is Your Quest? Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Hillary Clinton’s two biggest challengers were ambushed at a progressive political convention over the weekend.

Taxes on wine, beer, and spirits vary wildly from state-to-state and even within each state.

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.

More Democrats are calling themselves “liberal” than they have in years. Republicans, too.

Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.

Hillary Clinton remains as much the inevitable Democratic nominee as she always has been.

The New York Times really, really wants a horse race for the Democratic nomination.

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

Despite a veto from the state’s Governor, today Nebraska became the latest state to repeal the death penalty. Hopefully, others will follow.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

The six Baltimore cops charged in the April death of Freddie Gray have been indicted by a Grand Jury.

Hillary Clinton is a deeply flawed candidate who might not even make a very good President. But that doesn’t matter in the race for the Democratic Nomination, and she’s probably going to be the next President anyway.

Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.

A Second Amendment victory in the District of Columbia,

Ray Mabus is trying to make serving in the Navy and Marine Corps more attractive to women.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is insightful and eloquent. He’s wrong in this instance.

Just over a week after a death at the hands of police that remains incredibly suspicious, Baltimore is the sight of violent riots.

The GOP race remains tight, but some candidates have benefited from their entry into the race more than others. Overall, though, Hillary Clinton continues to dominate.

After months of resistance, the White House will allow Congressional review of any deal with Iran, but it may not hamper negotiations much in the end.

Kentucky has offered the Supreme Court a defense of its ban on same-sex marriage that seems laughable.

Once again, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren says she isn’t running for President, and has no plans to do so.

After nearly 20 years in office, Harry Reid announced early today that he would not seek reelection in 2016.

Ted Cruz kicks off with the first of what is likely to be a string of candidates getting into the 2016 race in the coming month.

The 2008 runner-up has scared off all serious challengers for 2016. Why?

Do the nonprofit’s foreign donors create a conflict of interest?

Reflecting a growing national trend away from the barbarity of capital punishment, the Governor of Pennsylvania has imposed a moratorium on executions in the Keystone State.

Mitt Romney is set to make an announcement at 11 Eastern today. [UPDATE: He’s out!]

With no real opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has no reason to rush getting into the race.

NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot dead while sitting in their patrol car In Brooklyn. And those suggesting that anyone other than the killer has “blood on their hands” are being absurd.

Not surprisingly, the F.C.C. has rejected a petition to ban the word “Redskins” from the airwaves.

Some on the left are suggesting Democrats should write off the South for the foreseeable future, but that would be as foolish as Republicans assuming that their dominance in the region will last as long as Democratic dominance did in the century after the Civil War.

The Food & Drug Administration’s new regulations requiring calorie and other information on menus in restaurants and elsewhere won’t work, could limit consumer choice, and may not be Constitutional.

The shocking has become routine. We’re no safer because of it.

The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11/2012 attack in Benghazi are not supported by the evidence. That’s unlikely to change anyone’s mind, though.