Outside the Beltway

Could National Security Adviser Michael Flynn be the first to go under Trump?

Another major change for the Boy Scouts.

President Trump will name his first Supreme Court pick on his 11th day in office.

New information raises serious questions about the integrity of the 2016 elections, and about Donald Trump and his supporters.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

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.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

Two of Chris Christie’s closest aides were convicted in the criminal trial resulting from the ‘Bridgegate’ scandal.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

With just forty-nine days left in the campaign, and less than a week before the first debate, the race for President is tighter than ever.

Just about two days after setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York City, a suspect is in custody.

An explosion that ended up injuring 29 people interrupted an otherwise quiet Saturday evening in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

A Trump surrogate warns of a “taco truck on every corner” if Trump loses. That sounds like more of a promise than a threat if you ask me.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

Things aren’t pretty inside the House of Trump these days.

It just keeps getting worse.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

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

The Veepstakes continues.

Is Indiana’s Governor a contender to be Donald Trump’s running mate?

Chris Christie remains at the top of the list of potential Trump running mates.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

National tragedies, whether man-made or natural disasters, used to bring Americans together. Now they just seem to pull Americans apart.

Continuing a pattern that began six years ago, the Supreme Court has again declined to hear an appeal in a case involving a challenge to state gun control laws.

The Trump campaign is out with its own ‘short list’ of potential running mates.

A purported ‘short list’ of potential running mates for Hillary Clinton is out. Here’s how the candidates stack up.

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

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.

Continuing the fight at this point is not just Quixotic, it’s unsporting.

An historic achievement.

One media critic is arguing that news organizations should ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton will become the Presumptive Democratic Nominee tomorrow. This is utterly ridiculous.

Closer to making history.

Bernie Sanders is continuing to let his supporters believe he has a chance to win the Democratic nomination. He is either delusional, or he is lying to his supporters.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

Hillary Clinton is hoping to avoid an embarrassing loss in California to Bernie Sanders, and she just got some help from an unlikely source.

The Clinton campaign probably thought the email story was behind them. The new report from the State Department’s Inspector General shows just how wrong they were about that.

Donald Trump now has enough delegates to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot.

Donald Trump is now just 28 delegates away from clinching the GOP nomination. New Jersey’s primary on June 7th will put him over the top.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders split victories in Kentucky and Oregon last night, and Clinton is now less than 100 delegates away from an historic victory.