Outside the Beltway

It’s Super Tuesday, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to go a long way toward securing the nominations of their respective parties.

Donald Trump won his third contest in a row in Nevada, putting him one step closer to inevitability.

Unless the polls are very wrong, it looks to be a good night for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Beyond that, there’s a lot that’s still up in the air.

In a move it had been telegraphing for the better part of a year, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since July 2006.

Marine Le Pen suffered setbacks in the second round of regional voting on Sunday, but the party still seems likely to become more popular in the coming years.

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?

A political earthquake north of the border.

After months of hinting that interest rates would be rising this month, signs of economic weakness led the Federal Reserve to hold back.

Senate Democrats are now just one vote away from being able to block a veto override, meaning that the effort to block the Iran Nuclear Deal will most certainly fail.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2015, and that suggests the rest of the year isn’t going to be very good either.

Pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic have been trying to figure out why the polls released right up until the eve of the British General Election were so wrong. Here’s one theory, and it’s very compelling.

After weeks of polls predicting a political stalemate or worse, British voters delivered a strong win for David Cameron and the Tories.

Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish National Party, could hold the key to the future of Britain in her hands after the election ends on May 7th.

The sources of new immigrants to the United States are changing, but it’s unclear if that will have any impact on the political debate over immigration reform.

Great Britain heads to the polls in less than a week, and it remains unclear just what’s going to happen.

The Commerce Department had a Christmas present for investors, businesses, and consumers today.

President Obama criticized Sony for backing down, and said that the U.S. would respond to North Korea’s cyber attack “at a place and time we choose,”

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

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.

Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.

America’s “Patient Zero” doesn’t appear to have spread Ebola very far, but continued vigilance is called for. And, we need to focus on the part of the world where there really is an Ebola Crisis.

Sobering news from the World Health Organization.

Democrats are starting to worry that low turnout could turn a good year for the GOP into a very good year.

After a disappointing August, the jobs report for September showed the same good numbers we’ve seen for much of 2014.

Closing down international air travel won’t stop Ebola from becoming a bigger public health threat.

While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.

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.

Trouble in paradise for two of Hawaii’s top Democrats?

How long should we expect people to work?

In no small part because of a brutal winter, the economy shrank in the first three months of the year.

There’s plenty of blame to go around.

After many ballyhooed glitches, 7 million Americans have signed up for ObamaCare. Now what?

So far at least, the 2014 elections do not appear likely to be a political earthquake on the scale of 2006, 2008, or 2010.

The Federal Exchange website seems to be functioning better, but many questions about implementation of the PPACA remain to be answered.

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

Things don’t seem to be going well for the Affordable Care Act.

The Defense Department may have found the money to furlough its civilian workers fewer than 11 days.

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

Three years after joining The New York Times, Nate Silver is jumping ship to Disney’s ESPN and ABC.