Outside the Beltway

The host of a weekend show on MSNBC is angry that the network wants her to talk about the presidential race.

Bizarrely, the Marco Rubio campaign seems to be telling donors that their candidate may have to hope for a brokered convention to win the GOP nomination.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz landed some punches on Donald Trump last night, but it’s doubtful that they changed the nature of the race.

On Tuesday, Ted Cruz’s campaign faces what amounts to a do-or-die battle in Texas.

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

Tonight’s results in South Carolina could have a significant impact on the race going forward. (Plus, a projection)

What would Jed Bartlet do?

Donald Trump is back on top, but the field below him remains as confused as ever.

Bernie Sanders scored a big win in New Hampshire, as most people expected, but the look ahead still tells us that Hillary Clinton will eventually be the Democratic nominee for President.

Ben Carson cut his campaign staff drastically just a month after raising more than $22 million. Another sign of a dead campaign.

Another late football great has been diagnosed with a brain disease directly connected to the game they played.

Ted Cruz won, Marco Rubio surged into a stronger than expected third place, and Donald Trump was humbled just a little bit, but he was hardly a “loser.” The race for the GOP nomination has begun for real.

Donald Trump takes his war with Fox News Channel up a notch, saying he won’t participate in Thursday’s Republican Presidential Debate.

“Tom, can you get me off the hook? For old times’ sake?”

“Can’t do it, Sally.”

Thirty years ago this week, tragedy struck America’s Space Program.

We’re in another Presidential election cycle so it must be time to speculate about Michael Bloomberg again.

Is this really ‘infuriating’ news?

The primary debates continue to draw in a lot of viewers.

Experts are casting doubt on North Korea’s claim that it tested a thermonuclear device earlier this week.

The North Koreans claim to have made a major advance in their nuclear weapons program, but there are many reasons to be skeptical.

Donald Trump is out with his first television ad, and it’s about what you’d expect.

A political cartoonist for The Washington Post crossed a line and, rightfully, got condemned for it.

Donald Trump has won Politifact’s ‘Lie Of The Year’ because, well, he’s told so many things that are utterly and provably false.

To nobody’s surprise, the third Democratic Debate received the lowest ratings yet of any debate so far this election cycle.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the newest film in the Star Wars saga is breaking all kinds of records.

Marco Rubio has been getting a lot of love lately from both conservatives and so-called ‘establishment’ Republicans, but his seemingly meager ground game in early states is raising doubts about his campaign.

The Commissioner of Major League Baseball has ruled that the lifetime ban issued against Pete Rose for betting on baseball will remain in effect.

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.

Remembering a legend on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Ben Carson threatens to leave the GOP over recent reports about plans for a brokered convention, but with his poll numbers collapsing one wonders why anyone would care if he did.

Donald Trump’s plan to exclude Muslims from the United States is provoking condemnation, and confusion, around the world.

Donald Trump’s plan to bar all Muslim immigration to the United States is being widely condemned by his fellow Republicans and others, but the proposal probably won’t hurt him politically in a Republican Party that is deeply bigoted against Muslims in general.

For an Oval Office address delivered on a Sunday night, President Obama’s speech last night sounded more like a statement read from the podium in the press room.

The attack in San Bernardino has seemingly left the Administration’s anti-terror strategy in disarray, so the President is addressing the nation tonight to say, well, something I guess.

Yesterday, cable news networks, and most especially MSNBC, showed their profession at its most pathetic.

No, there really haven’t been 355 ‘mass shootings’ since January 1st. Not unless you’re relying on completely unreliable data.

Multiple victims, and possibly multiple shooters, reported in San Bernardino, California.

The latest national poll of the Republican race shows Trump continuing to lead, Ben Carson fading, and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio rising while the rest of the field is stagnant or sinking.

Protests by students at Princeton are causing some people to finally pay attention to some inconvenient truths about America’s 28th President.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

A potentially big complication in an already complicated situation.

In the news from the campaign trail and in the polls, there are clear signs that Ben Carson’s days as a top contender in the GOP Presidential race are coming to an end.

An apparent ongoing terrorist attack in Central Africa.

Even the people hired to advice Ben Carson on foreign policy seem to recognize that he is clueless on the subject, and has no apparent desire to educate himself.