Outside the Beltway

The numbers aren’t looking good for Republican prospects in this year’s midterm elections.

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With the results from Alabama. the GOP faces a hard road ahead defending its majority in the Senate.

The longest-serving member of the House has retired amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in what could end up being a landmark case on the issue of the scope of Fourth Amendment rights in the 21st Century.

The latest domino to fall in the ongoing wave of sexual harassment and abuse revelations is Matt Lauer.

The early numbers in the battle to control Congress look good for Democrats, but there are are a number of caveats to keep in mind.

There’s growing evidence that Donald Trump’s tweets are hurting him but his aides have basically given up trying to control his Twitter habit.

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

One of the few Republicans willing to speak out against Donald Trump is retiring at the end of his current term.

A recent uptick in retirements from Congressional Republicans is leading some Republicans to become concerned about the party’s prospects in 2018.

Hillary Clinton delivers the most obvious news ever.

Democrats and “Never Trump”ers shouldn’t count their chickens before they’re hatched.

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.

Hatred and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On the special election for US Senate in Alabama

A new study shows that Baby Boomers no longer account for the largest segment of voters in the United States.

President Trump delivered a wholly inappropriate political speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree, but that should surprise nobody.

Robert Mueller seems to be getting closer to the President, and the Administration is responding by seeking to undermine his investigation.

Nearly 200 Members of Congress and the Senate have filed suit against President Trump alleging that he is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone she can for her loss, except the most obvious suspects.

Even with the revelations of the last three weeks, impeaching the President is still largely a fantasy.

Soon visitors to the White House will be able to see Donald Trump’s “yuge” election win on display for all to see.

There seems to be no question that the decision to fire James Comey was motivated largely by the President’s frustrations over the fact that his campaign is under investigation.

After failing twice in a month, House Republicans apparently think they have the votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

There’s already speculation that former Vice-President Biden might try for a third run at the White House, but it seems unlikely.

The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

Senate Democrats are divided on how to approach the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, making it likely that he’ll be confirmed.

Whether you call it TrumpCare, RyanCare, or GOPCare, the Republican replacement for the PPACA isn’t very impressive.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions apparently misled Senators when asked about his contact with Russian officials.

An unsurprising ‘resignation’ from the shortest-serving National Security Adviser in history.

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

Despite two Republican defections, Betsy DeVos was confirmed today as Secretary of Education.

Despite the lack of evidence, Donald Trump continues to claim that there were ‘millions’ of illegal votes cast in 2016.

President Obama thinks he would have beaten Donald Trump. And he’s probably right.

Survivors and family members of the Pulse Nightclub attack have filed what amounts to a frivolous lawsuit.

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

Congressional term limits are a good idea, but they are only a partial solution at best and may not be the best solution to the problems facing our political system.

As things stand, Democrats will have a hard time winning back control in the Senate in 2018.

In the end, there was no other logical choice.

To the surprise of nobody who paid attention, Nancy Pelosi won re-election as leader of the House Democrats.

Now Donald Trump is alleging that the 2016 Election was tainted by ‘illegal voting,’ even though he won!

An irrelevant candidate is triggering a recount in three states Trump won by substantial margins.

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.

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

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

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