Outside the Beltway

The answer is pretty straight-forward.

Another conflict of interest for President-Elect Trump.

Another name may be on the short list for Secretary of State.

Another month of solid but not spectacular jobs growth seems to guarantee that the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates this month.

Political change coming to Germany? Or more of the same.

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

Some musings on the RCP average and such.

Two Republican Senators are exchanging barbs over the idea that the GOP should block any attempt by Hillary Clinton to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court if she becomes President.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

A new study debunks an old idea.

Apparently, even people who support Donald Trump don’t believe his claim that he can get Mexico to pay for his border wall.

We’re further from a public option than we were in 2009. The need for it has become more acute.

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

The man who was brought in to clean up the I.R.S. after the alleged targeting scandal became public is facing censure and possible impeachment. Proving that there really is such a thing as a thankless job.

Ted Cruz and John Kasich have come up with yet another plan to stop Donald Trump.

Putting Donald Trump at the top of the ticket would likely lead to an Electoral College disaster for Republicans.

The coming political battle over President Obama’s effort to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia will likely be unlike anything we’ve seen before.

February’s Jobs Report was relatively positive, but there are still shadows hovering over the economy as we head further into the year.

Dare I say: hate the game, not the players?

The politicization of Supreme Court appointments didn’t start with Republicans last night.

Jim Webb’s recent criticism of Hillary Clinton is renewing speculation about an independent bid for the White House, but he hardly seems like a viable candidate for such a run.

Americans don’t trust their government or each other. There’s no reason to hope it’ll get better.

A political cartoonist for The Washington Post crossed a line and, rightfully, got condemned for it.

Five months after Charleston, Mississippi is still struggling to rid itself of symbols of the Confederacy.

The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.

With little actual debate and despite Paul Ryan’s promise of a return to ‘regular order,’ the House has passed a hastily drafted bill in response to the largely fear-based response to Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.

To a large degree, the narrative you believe will govern the 2016 elections depend on which party you want to see win. But what’s the most likely outcome?

Linking view on guns to political self-identity.

Two candidates with no experience in elected office are leading the Republican field.

Another poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Iranian nuclear deal, but the effort to defeat it in Congress is still likely to fail.

It will never actually happen, of course, but some of Donald Trump’s fellow candidates for President have been eager to endorse his idea to abolish birthright citizenship.

Public opinion on the Supreme Court has declined significantly, largely because Republicans don’t like the Supreme Court very much right now.

In an era of incredibly polarized politics and 24/7/365 campaign mode, it’s refreshing to see politicians treat each other as human beings now and again.

More Democrats are calling themselves “liberal” than they have in years. Republicans, too.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

So, she’s in.

Harry Reid made outlandish claims about Mitt Romney during the 2012 election. He probably knew they were lies when he made them. And he doesn’t care.

Two weeks after the email story broke, there’s no sign that Hillary Clinton is losing ground in the 2016 race.

Has the legislative branch abdicated its responsibility in US foreign policy?

Despite opposition from both Republicans and Democrats, the compromise budget resolution passed narrowly last night, but not without some last minute drama

A critic of the imperial presidency becomes an imperial president.

On a preliminary examination, the President’s executive action on immigration appears to be within the boundaries of applicable law. However, as with other exercises of Executive Branch authority, it raises some important concerns about the precedent that it sets.

The votes have been counted, the result is clear, but the battle between Senator Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel continues to get stranger by the day.

Public faith in government institutions is at all all time low.

Mitch McConnell is making promises to pro-life groups that the GOP probably won’t keep, but it’s still a politically risky move.