Outside the Beltway

Hillary Clinton is hinting about maybe running in 2020 again. Is she serious, or is this just a publicity stunt?

We should take Congressional officers out of the line of succession.

The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been in the news a lot lately, but what would it actually take to use it to remove a President from power?

Former President Jimmy Carter is warning his party against drifting too far left as we head into the midterms and, beyond that, the 2020 campaign cycle.

Day One of questions for Judge Brett Kavanaugh went about as you’d expect.

Donald Trump spent part of Labor Day engaged in yet another unhinged attack on his own Justice Department.

A new book by legendary Washington reporter Bob Woodward appears to contain explosive revelations about the President and the operation of the White House.

Max Boot proclaims “Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud.”

No matter how long Donald Trump remains in office, August 21, 2018 will be the day that everything changed.

Once again, the President has thrown the Rule of Law under the bus.

Democrats are on the verge of reducing the power of superdelegates to the point where they will essentially become meaningless in the nomination process.

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

Donald Trump continues to demonstrate that he has nothing but utter contempt for the Rule of Law. At some point, he will either be called to account for this or our nation’s institutions will suffer as a result.

Was one of the pioneering African-American entertainers a “house Negro”?

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

Republicans are at least a bit more confident that they’ll hold on to the Senate this year.

Earlier this week, the Illinois legislature ratified the Equal Rights Amendment. What’s unclear is if this act has any meaning at all.

The President’s constant attacks on the news media are meant for a single purpose, to undermine even accurate reporting about wrongdoing in his Administration.

President Trump has been tweeting up a storm since Sunday, raising a question. Should we view his Tweets as the rantings of a cranky old man, or as something more serious?

For Donald Trump and his supporters, “Fake News” means any news that doesn’t shower enough praise on him.

It’s been 441 days since Donald Trump held a full-fledged Presidential press conference. Does anyone care?

It’s a valid question, but one should also be careful about drawing conclusions based on how a person in Trump’s position acts.

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

White House service is usually a ticket to high-paying jobs in Washington. Not so for the current administration.

Tim Pawlenty is attempting a comeback in Minnesota. It won’t be easy.

Will Bunch wildly exaggerates the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”

The octogenarian failed to get her party’s endorsement for a sixth term.

A Federal Court in New York City is set to hear argument tomorrow in a case that essentially argues that a large swath of Federal laws regarding marijuana are unconstitutional.

The 2008 Republican nominee for president condemned his party and its president for the release of a controversial memo attacking the FBI.

The military options thus far presented for dealing with the DPRK have not been satisfying.

Donald Trump lies about even the most trivial matters, How are we supposed to believe anything else he says?

Donald Trump is wildly unpopular in the United Kingdom, and that’s apparently causing him to eschew visiting the United States’s most important ally.

Report that President Trump considered withdrawing the Gorsuch nomination are another sign of his unhealthy obsession with pledges of loyalty from people who have no business giving it to him.

In his time as President, Donald Trump has demonstrated as much contempt for the rule of law as he did as a candidate.

Federal Courts continue to rule against the Administration, and the President continues to lash out at Judges and demonstrate his contempt for the Rule Of Law.

Donald Trump is continuing to up the ante in his rhetorical war against one of America’s most fundamental freedoms.

Some more interesting post-election commentary from Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton delivers the most obvious news ever.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, has come out against the most recent immigration-related action by the national leader of his party.

On Trump’s anger.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

The Trump Administration will not try to stop former F.B.I. Director James Comey from testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.

A legendary statesman has passed.

Yet another report that the President of the United States sought to undermine an ongoing F.B.I. investigation.

Coming to a television set or Internet livestream near you sometime after Memorial Day.

In the immortal words of Warren Zevon, “Send lawyers, gun, and money. The shit has hit the fan.”