Outside the Beltway

The picture is becoming clearer.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

Trump needs them both.

Trump has pulled ahead in some individual polls but Biden continues to have a commanding lead.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Another unwelcome milestone that magical thinking won’t fix.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

Same endless song, different verse.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

Instead of a second presidential debate, we got competing TV shows.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

Great journalism can result in lousy history.

He has the largest lead of any challenger since modern polling began in 1936.

Trump continues to lag.

A little comparative politics.

One man’s fecklessness has gotten untold people sick.

The inevitable has happened.

More of what we saw last night would be bad for the country.

Considering Breonna Taylor’s death, police shootings, and human rights.

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

A potentially catastrophic delay has been averted.

Holding the president accountable is hard.

The President admits that he intentionally downplayed the threat posed by the epidemic.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

Media bias is real, but it isn’t what many claim it to be.

The legendary Georgetown basketball coach is gone.

To spend more time with her family.

The best people.

The official campaign to oust Donald Trump is off to a good start.

A retired admiral warns that the President is undermining our institutions.

A choice that’s both historic and unsurprising.

What would a reborn GOP look like and who would vote for it?

To mix cultural references: less than meets the eye.

The National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and GHW Bush has died.

Yet another incumbent has lost his primary contest.

It’s much easier to fund bad information than good.

Trump’s nonsense campaign against vote-by-mail could cost the GOP votes.

The President may be right on voting by mail.

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

She would hardly be the first running mate who criticized the nominee in a debate.

A new company has reinvented the communication tool that people love to hate.

An unintended consequence of the Cares Act.