Outside the Beltway

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

News outlets are suddenly finding out that Trump was a cad in 2005. Film at 11.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

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.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

Blue feelings matter.

A skilled comedian and unlikely leading man has passed away at the age of 83.

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

A report over the weekend raises questions about whether or not Donald Trump is changing positions on a central tenet of his campaign.

One speech isn’t going to make up for what we’ve seen so far.

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

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Donald Trump’s path to 270 Electoral Votes is becoming less likely by the day.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

The Old Dominion seems like it’s going to be even more firmly Democratic in 2016.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

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

Another targeted killing aimed at police.

If the allegations of a new lawsuit are true, things are truly lurid behind the scenes at Fox News Channel.

One result from the new NBC News poll shows us how important it is to pay attention to how poll questions are phrased.

Donald Trump has had a bad June, and it’s showing in the poll numbers.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

“Common sense” measures and the worst shooting spree in American history.

An overnight shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida has left 20 people dead and at least 42 injured.

Hillary Clinton won the final Super Tuesday of the 2016 primary season, thus officially sending us into what promises to be among the most contentious General Election battles in recent memory.

An historic achievement.

Several recent polls have shown the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tightening, but it likely means far less than the media hype makes it sound like.

The results from today’s Indiana Primary will go a long way toward setting the course for the end of both party’s nomination fights.

Donald Trump seems poised for another solid victory in Indiana tomorrow, while the effort to stop him from winning a majority of delegates looks to be running out of options.

To the surprise of no one, the alliance between Ted Cruz and John Kasich is already falling apart.

All of next season’s Thursday Night N.F.L. games will be streamed live for free via Twitter.

One week after Marco Rubio left the race, Donald Trump’s hold on the lead in the GOP Presidential race seems as solid as ever.

Advisers? Donald Trump doesn’t need no stinkin’ advisers.

When all is said and done, Super Tuesday Part Two is likely to put Hillary Clinton significantly closer to being the inevitable Democratic nominee.