Outside the Beltway

The AG is Trump’s lawyer, not ours.

Online instruction is an inferior product. But it’s more expensive to deliver.

A case where the rules probably shouldn’t apply to the President.

The pandemic is highlighting an international shame.

The Constitution in times of extreme crisis.

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

Bloomberg waffles on China while Sanders has a soft spot for Castro.

Which ones have you owned?

The real scandal isn’t the price tag but the beneficiary.

Mike Bloomberg’s campaign was forced to apologize for something that really isn’t a scandal.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

Democrats who could prove to be vulnerable in 2020 are largely lining up in favor of impeaching the President.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

I think Representative Van Drew has made a miscalculation.

Democratic Congressman Jeff van Drew of New Jersey is reportedly switching parties

Paul Volcker, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board who put an end to the rampant inflation that threatened to choke the American economy, has died at 92.

A new poll finds that a strong majority of Americans support life in prison instead of the death penalty.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

The latest poll out of New Hampshire shows four candidates at the top in a very close race.

A Senate Impeachment trial in early January would have a serious impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

More good news for Mayor Pete.

Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is reportedly considering a late entry into the race for the Democratic nomination.

A big win for ranked-choice voting in the Big Apple as voters approve a referendum that will bring ranked-choice voting to the nation’s most populous city.

It’s mostly a quiet Election Day around the country, but there are some races for Governor worth watching.

Donald Trump is moving his permanent residence south, where he should be right at home.

The President is tired of all the fake news.

She’s been fibbing about how she left a teaching job nearly half a century ago.

The next Democratic Debate will have the most people on stage at one time of any debate so far.

A Senate report alleges that the National Rifle Association allowed itself to become a Russian asset,

Cory Booker announced some respectable fundraising numbers, but his campaign continues to coast along just above the point of irrelevance.

It looks like we’ll have Cory Booker to kick around for a little while longer.

The latest Des Moines Register poll puts Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren at the top of the pack in the Hawkeye State.

Cory Booker’s campaign is basically admitting they’re at the end of the road.

For the most part, the third debate appears to have had little immediate impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

A mysterious conversation with a foreign leader is at the center of a controversy between the intelligence community and Congress.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

For Donald Trump, the Presidency has been nothing but a get richer quick scam.

The stage for the third Democratic debate, scheduled for mid-September, is set and its half the size of its predecessors.

David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers and the head of a wide-ranging business empire who also went on to have a huge impact on politics and cultural philanthropy, has died at the age of 79.

Even when it comes from his favorite propaganda network, Donald Trump doesn’t like bad news.

Another day, another Trump temper tantrum.

As he has in the past, President Trump has backed away from support for any gun control measures in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

The Trump Administration and 2020 campaign are clearly worried about the state of the economy. They should be, because it could be the one thing that dooms his re-election chances.

Joe Biden continues to have a strong lead in the Palmetto State, thanks largely to strong support from African-American voters.

The Trump campaign and several other parties have filed lawsuits challenging California’s new law requiring candidates for President to release copies of their tax returns.

Donald Trump is a complete package, you can’t support part of it without at least implicitly endorsing all of it.

One week out from the second Democratic debate, Elizabeth Warren appears to be the biggest beneficiary. while Kamala Harris appears to be falling behind.

As was the case in June, the second night of the second Democratic debate was seen by more people than the first night.