Outside the Beltway

A controversial retired General has been tapped to be President-Elect Trump’s top White House foreign policy voice.

Another great loss for music in what has been a difficult year.

Despite resentments, power will transition peacefully from President Obama to President Trump. We should be thankful for that rather than protesting it.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

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

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

A late Friday news dump by the Director of the F.B.I. has thrown a confusing curve ball into the race.

While not quite the great unskewing of argument past, here is an example of why non-experts need to avoid critiquing polling.

Donald Trump is losing something much more important to him that an election.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

The erstwhile Republican firebrand and current NeverTrumper shares his personal struggles.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

It looks like we won’t have Roy Moore to kick around anymore.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

A golf legend passes away.

A late night attack at a shopping mall, and a suspect still at large have raised tensions in Seattle.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

A long way off, but there are some important pre-trial matters to resolve between now and then.

A skilled comedian and unlikely leading man has passed away at the age of 83.

Despite being much more conveniently located for viewers in the United States, viewership for the just-concluded Olympics were the lowest they’ve been in sixteen years.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

Things aren’t pretty inside the House of Trump these days.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.