Outside the Beltway

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

In addition to winning back the House, Democrats also made gains in Governor’s races.

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

The vise is tightening on the Catholic Church.

One of the people most responsible for the personal computer revolution has passed away at the far-too-young age of 65.

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

Several states are opening new investigations of the Catholic Church abuse scandal. It’s about time.

California is taking a major step in Criminal Justice reform by eliminating cash bail.

Gary Johnson was a successful two-term Governor in New Mexico. Now he’s making a bid to represent the Land of Enchantment in the U.S. Senate.

Notwithstanding his dismissive public rhetoric about the former Vice-President, Donald Trump apparently sees Joe Biden as his biggest potential threat in 2020.

Some activists on the left are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be abolished. While that may be a great sound bite, it doesn’t really accomplish anything.

Two months ago, the President called on states to send National Guard troops to the border. As expected, they’re not guarding the border.

In an exceedingly narrow ruling, the Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding reception. However, the ruling did not address the broader issues raised by the case.

With one month to go in its term, there’s still a lot on the Supreme Court’s plate.

John Boehner is now pro-weed. The world just keeps getting weirder, man.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

President Trump’s call for National Guard troops isn’t going over well even with Republican Governors.

The Federal Government has fired another shot in the ongoing war over so-called “sanctuary cities.”

Presidents are much more constrained in issuing and rolling back regulations than they or the public think.

The GOP’s potential troubles in 2018 don’t just exist at the Congressional level.

Big problems for the Air Force.

Notwithstanding overwhelming public support, Congress is not moving forward on a proposal to ban bump stocks.

The shooter in the Texas church shooting was apparently able to get his weapons because the Air Force failed to report his domestic violence conviction.

Another mass shooting.

Yet another lawsuit against yet another controversial Trump Administration policy.

The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of a Colorado baker in a case that will determine if claims of religious liberty and free expression outweigh the application of generally applicable laws against discrimination.

The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled against a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding.

Public defenders in New Mexico are overworked, underfunded, and outmatched, but then that’s true pretty much everywhere in the country.

A Federal Judge has dismissed a lawsuit that tried to make an end-run around the Senate and put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court.

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

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

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.

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.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

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

The Veepstakes continues.

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

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.

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.

With two former Republican governors running under its banner, is there such a thing as a “Libertarian Party”?

For the second election cycle in a row, and after a contentious floor fight, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is the Libertarian Party’s nominee for President.

With Republicans in Trump-induced disarray, Libertarians are meeting to pick their nominee and the hope that 2016 could be the year their party finally gets the attention it has craved for four decades.