Outside the Beltway

Things are going to get better. And far worse.

We’re putting people in an impossible position.

A fiasco wrapped in a clusterfuck.

The greatest crisis the nation has faced in my lifetime.

Prosecutors in two Virginia counties have announced that they will decline to prosecute low-level drug possession cases.

With her eyes on her political future in a GOP dominated by Trumpism, Nikki Haley is attempting to rewrite the history of one of the most significant events of her time as Governor of South Carolina.

Nine months after what seemed like the end of his political career, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has mounted a comeback,

A conservative columnist explains how once-Republican states are switching sides.

Tuesday’s elections continued a trend in which Republicans have lost support among suburban voters, even in deeply red states. Guess who’s responsible for that.

Another bad night for Republicans in Virginia, and another warning sign for Republicans nationally.

Virginia voters don’t like Donald Trump, or Republicans in general, very much right now, and that could translate into Democrats taking control of the state legislature for the first time in nearly 30 years.

It wasn’t exactly a warm reception for President Trump at last night’s World Series Game Five.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

Northern Virginia is slowly undoing an anachronism.

The IRS is outgunned.

The President’s re-election fund-raising is off to a fast start.

While polarization in our national politics gets the most attention, several states also face serious rural-urban tensions.

The relatively light sentence that Paul Manafort received is raising eyebrows. Hopefully it will lead to a long-overdue debate on sentencing reform.

Paul Manafort walked into court yesterday facing the possibility of 20 years in prison. He came away with a much better outcome.

Thanks mostly to political opposition that misrepresented the nature of the deal it had made, Amazon has abandoned plans to locate parts of its new headquarters in New York City.

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

Lies and possible evidence of obstruction of justice make up the bulk of Robert Mueller’s new case against former Trump campaign director Paul Manafort.

An effort by the Federal Government to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises serious First Amendment issues.

After initially saying no, Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke is now reopening the door to the idea of running for President.

Paul Manafort finds himself in new legal trouble after Special Counsel Robert Mueller accused him of lying after entering a plea agreement.

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has made several mistakes since Election Day, but she’s likely to win tomorrow’s runoff election.

The morning show co-hosts tied the knot at a secret ceremony at the National Archives.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

Amazon has reportedly decided to split its second headquarters between an already urbanized area of Northern Virginia and the outer boroughs of New York City.

Beto O’Rourke should consider running again in 2020, but not for President.

With the election over, New York’s junior Senator seems to have changed her mind about running for President.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

New polling in a bellwether Congressional District in Northern Virginia appears to signal bad news ahead for the GOP.

Senator Tim Kaine continues to maintain a huge lead over Corey Stewart in the Virginia Senate Race.

Nominating Corey Stewart is beginning to look like the biggest mistake Virginia Republicans have ever made.

Corey Stewart rose to become the Republican Party’s Senate nominee in Virginia with blatant appeals to racial division. Now his party fears they’ll be the ones who end up paying the price.

Virginia Republicans nominated arch-Trumpist Corey Stewart for the Senate three weeks ago. His campaign appears to be going about as well as expected.

Joe Crowley, widely considered in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as party leader in the House, has been defeated.

Donald Trump’s former Campaign Manager was sent to jail, a move that likely increases the pressure on him to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Virginia Republicans took a hard-right turn in yesterday’s primary. This is likely to benefit the Democrats.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

Former Trump Campaign Director Paul Manafort has been hit with a new round of charges.

Rudy Giuliani is basically now suggesting that his client would be willing to set off a Constitutional crisis that would make Watergate seem like a picnic.

This isn’t your ordinary windy day.

The Mueller investigation moves forward.

Women voters are turning decidedly against Donald Trump, this could pose problems for Republican in 2018 and beyond.

Last week, the President was calling for national unity. This week, he called political opponents “treasonous.”

Congress appears to be moving closer to a budget deal even as the President tries to throw a monkey wrench into the whole thing.

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

The early numbers in the battle to control Congress look good for Democrats, but there are are a number of caveats to keep in mind.