Outside the Beltway

Some 2020 Democratic hopefuls are turning to a surprising source for counsel.

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

The President revived an old debate but added some new twists.

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

Yet another promising spring football league seems to have bitten the dust.

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

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.

Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’

The American Civil Liberties Union has joined the list of groups with lawsuits against the President’s declaration of a “national emergency” at the southern border.

Justice Clarence Thomas argues that a 55-year-old precedent should be overturned.

At this early stage of the Democratic race, it doesn’t appear that voters care very much about the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American ancestry.

The lawsuits against President Trump’s “national emergency” have begun. Except more.

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

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

The right has spent a seemingly inordinate amount of time focusing on relatively powerless Members of Congress.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar became the latest Democrat to enter the 2020 race on Sunday.

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.

There’s a good reason why Democrats want Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to get out of the way sooner rather than later.

Despite overwhelming calls for his resignation, Ralph Northam is refusing to step down as Governor of Virginia.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

A WaPo data analyst gives it a shot.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest Democratic entrant into the 2020 race for President.

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

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

Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema will end up representing Arizona in the Senate together.

Despite aggressive vaccination efforts, measles cases surged worldwide last year. You can “thank” that anti-vaccination movement.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is reportedly considering a bid for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in 2020.

President Trump’s latest attack on the Federal Judiciary prompted a rare rebuke from the Chief Justice of the United States.

A federal judge has found the practice outside the scope of Congress’ authority.

Once again, Republicans in California find themselves looking up and seeing a lot of desolation. They need to find a way to bounce back.

Now that the election is over, President Trump and his sycophants in the right-wing media seem to have completely forgotten about the “invading” “caravan” of Central American asylum seekers.

The economy may be doing well, but that didn’t help Republicans in the midterms.

Democratic pickups in several state legislatures could impact redistricting after the 2020 Census.

Whether as candidates or as voters, Democrats can thank women for many of their victories on Tuesday.

The 2018 midterms were mostly about Donald Trump. The results were idiosyncratic.

Congressman Keith Ellison appears to be falling behind in the race to be Minnesota’s next Attorney General.

Measles cases are on the rise in Europe due to the fact that, despite all the evidence to the contrary, people still believe the lies of the anti-vaccination movement.

For a number of reasons, we may not know the outcome of the midterm elections on Election Night.

For the second time this year, a Federal Court has struck down a state law designed to punish businesses that engage in a boycott aimed at Israel.

A new round of Congressional Ballot polls seems to put Democrats in a strong position for the ‘blue wave’ they’ve been hoping for all year.

With the primaries over, we can say that it’s been quite a successful year for women in politics.

The first day of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings was much ado about pretty much nothing, but then that can be used to describe a process whose outcome is pretty much foreordained.

Another “progressive” victory over a longtime Democratic incumbent, but this one is a bit different.

A top Vatican official is alleging that Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI were both aware of previously unknown allegations of sexual abuse and chose to allow them to be covered up rather than bringing them to light.

Democrats have pulled the trigger and essentially eliminated the power of superdelegates except in the unlikely event that a nominating convention goes to a second ballot.

One moment at a campaign rally in October 2008 defines better than anything else what American politics lost when John McCain passed away.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.