Outside the Beltway

A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton remains largely unstoppable on her quest for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, and she has a pretty clear path to the White House as well.

Los Angeles became the latest major city to increase its minimum wage. It’s a risky bet that is likely to do more harm than good.

The final episode airs tonight. How will Matt Weiner will wrap it up?

The just-concluded British General Election was also a clash between two former top advisers to President Obama.

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

One freshman Senator seems to think that war with Iran would be easy, just like Republicans used to think that war against Iraq would be easy.

Scott Walker’s response to the Iranian nuclear deal is perhaps the most irresponsible so far.

The numbers on the Ebola outbreak are bad, but they aren’t as bad as had been feared.

Our supposed Syrian allies seem to have a different idea of who the enemy in Syria actually is.

All the warnings of violence in the wake of an expected imminent announcement from the Grand Jury in the Michael brown case could become self-fulfilling prophecy.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Political scientists tend to be less dramatic than commentators.

Remember the border crisis? Yea, it’s not much of a crisis these days.

Two weeks after it seemed to be tightening, there are signs the battle for control of the Senate may be moving in the GOP’s direction.

A new poll indicates that NFL fans plan to keep watching despite the recent domestic abuse scandals.

The Kansas Supreme Court may have just upended the battle for control of the U.S. Senate

Republicans still have an advantage, but Democrats seem to be holding their own in the battle for Senate control.

One analyst thinks that the predictions of a Republican Senate in 2014 are wildly optimistic.

A new poll indicates that Democratic candidates are holding their own against Republican challengers in three southern states.

A grim new poll for the President and his Democratic allies.

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

Former RNC Chair Ed Gillespie is challenging incumbent Senator Mark Warner for his Senate seat.

Nearly six months later, it’s hard to find any good in the July military coup in Egypt.

The era of the electric car isn’t likely to arrive for a long time, if ever.

Some signs from Silicon Valley seem to indicate that the heady days of the 90s Tech Bubble are returning.

Do Voter ID laws really suppress voter turnout? The evidence from at least one state doesn’t prove it.

A good initial GDP report for the 3rd Quarter, but hardly something to write home about.

Will this new Australian oil discovery shake up world politics?

The GOP’s shutdown was about as pointless as a show about waiting for a table in a Chinese restaurant.

The GOP’s approval numbers have fallen like a stone, but it’s unclear whether this will matter in 2014.

Day One of the Obamacare online “marketplaces” is proving to be a bit of a bumpy ride.

Apparently, there was a culture clash at the Grey Lady.

A new blog, Rejection Letters of the Philosophers, “imagin[es] what the greats of history might have been faced with, had they been forced to publish or perish.”

Exploring data from 33 years’ of FISA reports to Congress

Emily DePrang looks back at “‘Baghdad Bob’ and His Ridiculous, True Predictions.”

Old Man’s war, a sci-fi novel about the distant future published in 2007, features Newsweek magazine, which went out of business in 2012.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

Thanks to the CFTC, Americans will no longer be able to participate in Intrade’s predictions markets.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

More griping about poor analysis.

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.