Outside the Beltway

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

A binary choice will produce a worse outcome than necessary.

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

A key economic statistic that rarely gets widespread public attention is showing that the manufacturing sector has been in recession for four months now.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

As the walls close in, the President is growing more agitated.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch described how the President’s allies intimidated her out of her position, while the President intimidated her live on Twitter.

There were few fireworks during the first day of public impeachment hearings, but the ground work for a case against the President was laid.

Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular suffered a big loss in the Kentucky Governor’s race.

Elizabeth Warren’s fellow Democrats aren’t so thrilled with her ‘Medidare For All’ plan.

A Federal District court Judge in Alabama has blocked implementation of that state’s latest attempt to challenge Roe v. Wade

Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is basically a non-entity in the race for the Democratic nomination, will not be running for re-election.

We won’t have whats-his-name to kick around anymore.

A custody case out of Texas raises issues about how to react to and treat a child who identifies as a gender different from their biological sex.

The fourth Democratic debate saw a viewership dip from September, but there are likely some good reasons for that.

Fear of Donald Trump and his minions is making it hard for Republicans to answer a simple question.

Elizabeth Warren took most of the fire during last night’s fourth Democratic debate, which will likely go a long way toward winnowing down a crowded field.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.

Tulsi Gabbard, who managed to qualify for tomorrow’s fourth Democratic debate after missing out on the third, is threatening to boycott what may be her last chance to make her case to a national audience.

Something fun to cleanse the palate.

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

A very successful fundraising quarter for Senator Elizabeth Warren caps off a quarter that has seen her surge in the race for the 2020 nomination.

More information released last night confirmed the extent to which the United States was linking progress on its relationship with Ukraine to an investigation of Joe Biden and his son.

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

Joe Biden reported a mostly successful fundraising quarter for the period that ended September 30th,

From manufacturing to trade, the negative impact of Trump’s tariffs is becoming quite apparent.

The past week has demonstrated more notably than any other that this President is not well.

Jake Tapper and Chris Wallace both put Administration surrogates through the ringer on their respective Sunday morning shows.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

President Trump is now admitting that he talked to the President of Ukraine about investigations of Joe Biden and his son but denies there was a quid pro quo.

Another Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is gone.

After falling for the second debate, ratings were back near record levels for the third debate.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

Former Republican Congressman and Governor Mark Sanford is running for President.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

An Oklahoma state court Judge has handed down what many are hailing as a landmark ruling related to the opioid crisis, but there’s reason to be skeptical about his conclusions.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

Former Vice-President Biden has dropped his first television ad in Iowa, and it touches on his strongest selling point.

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.

Stories from sites like The Onion are routinely shared on social media and perceived as real news.

Workers at a petrochemical plant were told they could choose between showing up for a Presidential speech and not getting paid.

The 76-year-old Democratic frontrunner’s penchant for gaffes is raising questions about his fitness to govern.

President Trump says he’s thinking about commuting the sentenced of Rod Blagojevich, who has served seven years of the fourteen-year sentence he received for public corruption.

Trump’s trip to El Paso in one photo and two videos.

In the wake of the back-to-back shootings in Texas and Ohio, a new poll shows increased support for some gun control measures. But we’ve been here before.

On a day that called for national unity and empathy, President Trump couldn’t help but revert to form.

Republicans have come up with a new target to blame mass shootings on, “violent video games.”

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