Outside the Beltway

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

Scholars argue that the shifting media landscape is largely to blame for our political crisis.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

Deny them the pleasure of an angry reaction, and they’ll probably leave you alone.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

Two-thirds want social media platforms to ban harassment and racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

How finite is prestige?

Graham is blocking a vote on a non-binding resolution on the Mueller report.

A further attempt at explanation.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Pew has a new study that confirms our basic understanding of “independents.”

Looking to OTB readers for insights into an argument with which I’m struggling.

Why rational discourse seldom changes the minds of some people.

It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.

I was wr-r-r-r-r-ong.

The mysterious disappearance of long-time OTB commenters.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

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.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

A novel proposal for making SCOTUS appointments more responsive to election outcomes.

The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.

President Trump’s detailed schedules reveal a man who doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually working.

More than any recent President, Donald Trump displays a tremendous amount ignorance about the world. Even worse is the fact that he seems proud of it.

Two more defections from the stable of writers at RedState provide further proof of the extent to which conservative media has become a pro-Trump echo chamber.

President Trump is claiming he never said Mexico would directly pay for the wall, except for all those times when he said Mexico would directly pay for the wall.

President Trump is claiming that he could use authority to declare a “national emergency” to build his wall even if Congress doesn’t authorize it.

President Trump is making clear that he doesn’t care how his shutdown is impacting Federal workers.

As the shutdown drags on, Mitch McConnell finds himself facing pressure from the White House and from members of his own caucus.

In what clearly appears to be a rebuke of the President, Defense Secretary James Mattis is retiring as Secretary of Defense.

Hours before the House was set to vote on a temporary funding bill for the government, President Trump has apparently changed his mind.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

The publisher of the National Enquirer admits that it made payments to a Playboy model for the purpose of protecting Donald Trump’s campaign for President.

While most Hollywood blockbusters have male leads, films starring women actually do better on the aggregate.

Once again, President Trump is threatening a shutdown over the border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.

The continued problem cause by a lack of shared reality.

An effort by the Federal Government to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange raises serious First Amendment issues.

Even as its leader continues to deny the reality of Global Climate Change, the Trump Administration has released an utterly devastating report on the impact of such change over the course of the coming decades.

Somewhere, Tim Russert is smiling.

My latest for War on the Rocks.

My latest for The National Interest.

Donald Trump’s lies became even more frequent during the recently-concluded campaign season.

The emergence of a silly talking point.

Rather than cauterizing an open wound, she’s fanned the fuels of a fire.

Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA report showing that she does indeed have some Native American heritage in her family’s past. That won’t stop conservatives from continuing to attack her, though.

Part III is here (a lot sooner than Part II was).

The second installment of a seemingly forgotten series.

The first poll taken in the wake of the Kavanaugh nomination fight suggests the voter enthusiasm gap is shifting toward Democrats.

Math rules.