Outside the Beltway

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest entrant into an already crowded field for the Democratic nomination.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz is considering an independent run for the Presidency. This would likely be good news for President Trump.

Several states are getting rid of caucuses in favor of primaries, a move that could be to the disadvantage of candidates like Bernie Sanders.

Faced with the prospect of a large field like the one Republicans had in 2016, Democrats are trying to figure out how to handle debates. So far, the ideas being put forward are as bad as what the GOP ended up doing.

Bernie Sanders has not officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s reportedly planning a much more aggressive campaign than what we saw in 2016 if he does.

Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz is apparently considering running for President.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

Michael Bloomberg is flirting with the idea of running for President in 2020. He’s done this before, of course, but this time he seems far more serious.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

California’s legislature has moved to block localities from imposing taxes on soda and other sugary drinks.

The former New York City Mayor is prepared to spend $80 million to help Democrats take back Congress this year.

Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.

Following yesterday’s move by Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walmart has raised the age for all gun sales to 21.

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

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

Michael Bloomberg announced today that he’s not running for President, but he came awfully close to getting into the race.

The end of Webbmentum is here, my friends.

As Michael Bloomberg flirts with the idea of running for President, a poll finds very little enthusiasm for the idea.

We’re in another Presidential election cycle so it must be time to speculate about Michael Bloomberg again.

Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t forget to start a political fight with your family!

Virginia Democrats tried to capture control of the Virginia State Senate by, in part, emphasizing gun control issues. The fact that they failed is instructive.

A new poll shows an up-tick in public support for some gun control measures, but gun control advocates can’t ignore the political reality that says those restrictions are unlikely to ever become law.

Political reality shows us that the shootings in Charleston are not going to have any appreciable impact on the likelihood of any type of gun control law passing anywhere outside of the bluest of the blue states.

As the second anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School approaches, a new poll finds that more Americans support gun rights than gun control.

Today is a day for turkey and football, not a day for politics.

Adapting a relic of the 20th Century to the 21st Century.

Rich guys are backing organizations that are taking over traditional party functions. Is that a problem?

Target is the latest business to ask customers to leave the guns at home when they go shopping.

Mike Bloomberg’s absurd soda ban is, thankfully, dead.

The bizarre conservative love affair with Vladimir Putin continues.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

The likelihood of any action on gun control in 2014 is extremely limited

When it comes to thinks like Mike Bloomberg’s large-sized soda ban, most Americans prefer to just say no.

Gun control has faded as a political issue as the memory of Newtown has faded, and that was entirely predictable.

Guess what’s coming to the dinner table.

Another legal setback for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s crusade to regulate what New York City residents can eat and drink.

Michael Bloomberg wants New Yorkers to take the stairs. The bastard.

Anthony Weiner’s campaign for Mayor Of New York isn’t exactly getting off on the right foot.

Some on the right are complaining that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was read his Mranda rights too soon.