Outside the Beltway

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

Paul Manafort walked into court yesterday facing the possibility of 20 years in prison. He came away with a much better outcome.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Once again, President Trump proves that in the face of evil he is a coward and a disgrace.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Thanks mostly to it’s complete and enthusiastic embrace of Donald Trump , the Republican Party faces a bleak demographic future.

Saturday Night Live mocked the President’s declaration of a ‘national emergency,” which caused him to lash out on Twitter.

Patrick Caddell, who helped Jimmy Carter win the Democratic nomination and White House in 1976, has died at the age of 68.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

The former #2 official at the FBI is trying to sell a book.

Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time Presidential candidate who ran a cult-like organization that spread bizarre conspiracy theories, has died at 96.

The former Attorney General is seriously pondering a presidential bid. Seriously.

In his business career Donald Trump relied largely on fear and intimidation to get his way on business deals. As President, he’s finding that nobody is afraid of him.

The Speaker was dealt a winning hand and played it with the skill of a seasoned pro. But the outcome was all but inevitable.

Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?

As the shutdown goes on, the polls are getting worse for the President.

Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.

Former Senator and Denocratic Presidential candidate Jim Webb is reportedly being considered for Defense Secretary.

Trump has reportedly told aides that he doesn’t really care about reports of an approaching crisis of the budget deficit and national debt because he’ll be out of office before it becomes a problem.

Trump continues to struggle at major international meetings.

Once again, Republicans in California find themselves looking up and seeing a lot of desolation. They need to find a way to bounce back.

One of the last Republican strongholds in California is now completely blue.

Is Donald Trump thinking about dumping Mike Pence in 2020? Probably not, but that’s not going to stop the speculation.

It would be a rather quixotic effort, but Jeff Flake isn’t ruling out challenging the President for the Republican nomination in 2020.

Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz is apparently considering running for President.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

Thirty-seven years ago, Ronald Reagan spoke out against hatred and bigotry in a way that the current President refuses to do.

Newt Gingrich has endorsed President Trump’s use of the rhetoric of Josef Stalin to attack the American news media.

Sad news from the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

President Trump is preparing to scrap a thirty-year-old treaty that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. It would be a foolish mistake.

Donald Trump is a coward and an apologist for evil around the world.

Is political satire even possible in the age of Trump?

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.

Jennifer Rubin wants to build a new political party from scratch.

Entertainers work for a living, too.

Republican Troy Balderson holds a narrow lead in a Special Election in Ohio. Even if he wins, though, the way this election played out does not bode well for the GOP in November.

Paul Laxalt, the former Nevada Senator who was one of President Reagan’s closest confidantes outside the White House, has died at 96.

Corey Stewart rose to become the Republican Party’s Senate nominee in Virginia with blatant appeals to racial division. Now his party fears they’ll be the ones who end up paying the price.

The President was up late last night sending an incredibly over-the-top tweet directed at Iran.

Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

Initial polling on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court find the public more divided than they have been for other recent SCOTUS picks, but that’s unlikely to impact the fate of his nomination.

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

In a ruling that largely relies on the authority granted by Congress to the President to regulate immigration on national security grounds, the Supreme Court has upheld the final version of the Administration’s travel ban.

A Republican organization dedicated to abortion rights is shutting down after 30 years, eight fewer than the Party has opposed them.

Donald Trump’s former Campaign Manager was sent to jail, a move that likely increases the pressure on him to cooperate with Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The GOP and Donald Trump are indistinguishable now. But it’s not clear what that means.

GOP primary voters continue to reward staunch supporters of the President and punish those who get on his bad side.

The Federal Government will borrow more than $1 trillion this year for the first time in more than a half-decade.

Frank Carlucci, who served as President Reagan’s last Secretary of Defense, has died at 87.