Outside the Beltway

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

Polling remains uncertain in the Alabama Senate race, but the odds favor Roy Moore.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a second case dealing with political Gerrymandering.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

Even a ceremony honoring American heroes wasn’t immune from President Trump’s habit of attacking racial minorities.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Is it time to reexamine Presidential authority to launch a nuclear strike?

Will Joe Biden be ‘tan, rested, and ready’ enough to take on 2020?

A new poll shows that a record majority of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, support legalization of marijuana.

The District of Columbia has decided not to risk an appeal of a lower court ruling striking down its restrictive concealed-carry law.

Former N.F.L. player, and convicted murderer, Aaron Hernandez suffered from a severe case of C.T.E. at the time of his death according to a post-mortem brain study.

For the second time this year, there are rumors that Mitt Romney could run for Senator from Utah if Orrin Hatch decides to retire.

As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.

We’re a long way away from the start of the 2020 election cycle, but Democrats are already maneuvering for support and money.

Sad news about a Washington stalwart.

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 Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a Colorado baker in a case that will determine if claims of religious liberty and free expression outweigh the application of generally applicable laws against discrimination.

A Massachusetts teenager faces 20 years in prison for contributing to her boyfriend’s suicide via text message.

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, nearly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of legal marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans.

Republicans are saying that repealing the PPACA isn’t off the table, but practically speaking it probably is.

A major announcement from NASA in the search for possible life outside the Solar System.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

After a highly contentious nomination process, Jeff Sessions was confirmed last night as the new Attorney General of the United States.

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

A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.

The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.

An unsurprising win in the Pelican State.

Another name may be on the short list for Secretary of State.

Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

Mitt Romney and Donald Trump became bitter rivals for the soul of the GOP in 2016, but Romney appears to be at the top of Trump’s list for the nation’s top diplomat.

Team of Rivals?

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

The fight for marijuana legalization advances in California.

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

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

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

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

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.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

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

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

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